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Public-sector trade unions fought for preserving privileges.
In Guatemala, the largest economy, less than 3% of workers are unionized and their unions are marginal.
It is hypocritical to promote democracy and then sign a trade agreement that denies workers the basic democratic right to organize and join unions.
The checks and balances that unions provide are essential in the workplace, but they are even more important in sustaining fledgling democratic regimes.
Some credit the so-called “Polder Model” of social cooperation between employers, unions and the government.
True, Dutch trade unions have moderated wage demands.
They demanded tax cuts, and got them; they demanded a rollback of environmental protection, and got it; they demanded, and received, the right to attack unions; and they demanded lucrative government contracts, even for paramilitary operations, and got those, too.
America’s president is captive to the country’s labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.
It is the benign upshot of responsible labor unions, which allow for appropriate firm-level wage flexibility.
Robert Mundell, a Canadian who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1999, was the first person to write about the benefits of monetary unions.
Countries as diverse as Peru, Vietnam, and Mexico would have signed on to labor laws enshrining workers’ rights to form independent unions and engage in collective bargaining, as well as intellectual property protections to defend against counterfeiting and unfair subsidies to state-owned enterprises.
This began to change as societies became more democratic and labor unions and other groups mobilized against capitalism’s perceived abuses.
A new labor code has been adopted, but delivers scant liberalization because it does not reduce the mandatory severance pay of three months' salary and enhances the role of the official trade unions.
More perniciously, many supporters of this view, when confronted with the reality of unemployment, argue that it arises only because of government-imposed rigidities and trade unions.
This is one reason why labor unions, which once opposed immigration across the board, are now far more supportive of measures that would legalize undocumented workers and create more pathways for migration.
The minimum-wage now exceeds what trade unions had sought.
The problem is no longer too much power in the president’s hands, but too much power in the hands of “veto centers” – including public-sector unions – that are blocking much-needed reforms, including in the health system.
Hu’s Politburo has consistently refused to let peasants set up non-official farmers’ associations or trade unions.
Moreover, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010, which allows unlimited independent political expenditure by organizations like corporations or unions, has helped Romney more than Obama.
The classic working class has disappeared: social democratic parties and trade unions are shadows of their former selves.
At the same time, his government raised taxes, increased social expenditures, and strengthened collective bargaining in a deal with the unions.
The division of the country into municipalities transferred tax resources and decision-making capabilities to communities, thereby enabling agricultural unions to control several towns and assume management responsibilities.
If one believes that less overweening unions and a smaller state are the first steps toward a better supply side in Europe, this referendum item deserves praise.
There was much talk recently about the "crisis of the left," as the Labor party in Britain, the Social-Democrats in Germany, and the Democrats in America had to struggle between their old socialist and New Deal traditions and the imperatives of a modern economy, with the fading labor unions and other political bastions of the old left.
The logic is obvious: If we in developed democracies had lacked the right to protest, speak out, organize unions, and vote for representatives of our choosing, we would never have ended child labor or established the eight-hour workday.
This explains why the management, most of the workers, and the Unions of Arcelor refused Mittals offer.
Last month, a coalition of unions, public pension funds, state treasurers, and others established the Investors for Opioid Accountability.
This was sure to kick up a political storm, and French trade unions have already responded by threatening a general strike for the second week in September.
But it is equally true that the emerging consensus among the government, business leaders, and trade unions already has led a growing number of companies to promise significantly higher wages and bonuses.
The more trade unions defend existing wage structures, and the lower productivity growth is, the longer the slump will be.
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