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It will do so only when people are allowed to create broad alternatives to schools dominated by teachers' unions.
Government programs must be strengthened, and employers and trade unions must assume greater responsibility for investing in skills.
The key will be so-called “second-round effects” – whether growing crude prices lead to higher wage demands from trade unions.
So far, the “social partners,” as ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet likes to call the unions, have been quiet.
Ringo also heads the Apollo Alliance , a coalition of trade unions, environmentalist groups, managers, and local politicians that demands clean energy and good jobs.
But Prime Minister Persson, kowtowing to the trade unions, insists on blocking labor immigration altogether for the next decade.
Starting from a weak base when multiparty democracy was instituted in 1946, civil society had developed to the point that governments conferred with business associations, unions, academics, the press, and various other private interest groups.
The reason is apparent: she has judged that she cannot afford to lose the support of American trade unions such as the United Automobile Workers, whose members fear a reduction in tariffs on car and trucks.
The European labor force is extremely immobile and continental labor unions are very conservative.
Wage levels will also have to adapt to the new situation and labor unions will be forced to become more realistic in their demands.
Germany now boasts a booming economy, near full employment, rising wages, and content unions.
As neither Germany’s unions nor its welfare state would accept falling wages, the result was higher unemployment and slower growth.
Industrial lobbies and labor unions are pushing hard for these sanctions to take effect more quickly.
Progressive economists argue that the weakening of unions in the US, together with tax policies favoring the rich, slowed middle-class income growth, while traditional transfer programs were cut back.
Most human-rights organizations, women’s groups, and labor unions recognize the relationship between the rule of law and a progressive interpretation of constitutional rights, on the one hand, and the values and worldview of the judges appointed to the bench, on the other.
Articulate intellectuals and groups such as labor unions and environmental organizations in the advanced economies have voiced anti-globalization fears and sentiments for at least a quarter-century.
And labor unions can contribute to ensuring that training translates into better jobs.
But prices are already rising at a 20% annual pace, which, if unchecked, will lead to conflict with the powerful Peronist unions.
Social unrest, on the other hand, has already erupted, with violent protests by students and radical trade-union factions fueling alarm – as have threats and aggression against officials of both trade unions and employers’ associations.
Such training can be made available through various channels – including private firms and trade unions – with government support.
Three completed trade agreements (with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia) have been languishing for years, mostly because of deep opposition to free trade from labor unions and the Democratic Party.
But the eurozone is not only replicating other unions’ mistakes; it is repeating its own.
It is worth noting that US labor unions that opposed NAFTA 20 years ago have not rallied behind Trump’s threats against Mexico.
Business leaders believe that the government’s proposals for easing redundancy rules are not bold enough, while trade unions view the reforms as being underfunded.
Meanwhile, independent trade unions have been all but crushed, and oligarchs now declare themselves willing to render their property to the state as needed.
Moreover, the salient issues concerning monetary unions were well understood, and remedies for the most significant obstacles were proposed at the outset.
According to the OECD, microfinance institutions, including national foreign-aid agencies, banks, credit unions, and nonprofit organizations, already provide basic financial services to more than 100 million of the world’s enterprising poor, 90% of them women.
Or think of public-sector unions vetoing changes in benefits for their members.
For example, despite nationalist rhetoric by state enterprises and associated trade unions, the government should decide that the vast telecommunications network should be privatized, including to foreign investors.
The opposition comprises most of Venezuela's organized civil society, not only business, but also trade unions, professional associations, and NGOs.
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