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In the 1960s and 1970s institutions such as unions expanded, and governments made new commitments to affordable education, social security, and progressive taxation.
A good example is Sarkozy’s effort to raise France’s retirement age from 60 to 62.Trade unions are up in arms, which, after all, is their duty.
Teachers stood for schools that run on renewable energy, women supported healthier agriculture, grandmothers demanded clean air for their grandchildren, unions want a green job transition, and city mayors want investments in energy-efficient buildings.
Developed countries have been raising their retirement ages gradually, but trade unions and pensioner groups lobby hard against any increase.
Could there be a better place to do business, build stadiums and skyscrapers, or sell information technology and media networks than a country without independent trade unions or any form of organized protest that could lower profits?
A clash with powerful unions awaits.
Policy makers in poor countries have long understood that their chief enemies are the "fair trade" advocates in the US, unions, and environmentalists.
Spending is temporarily reduced and taxes raised, but the long-run structural deficit remains, a pattern now repeated in many state capitals and the primary reason for the current political turmoil over budgets and public sector unions.
Trade unions held a symbolic one-hour strike to back the government.
Weaker unions and workers’ reduced bargaining power have flattened out the Phillips curve, with low structural unemployment producing little wage inflation.
Unfortunately, it continues to be a clientelist, corporatist, corrupt organization that does not believe in citizen participation, checks and balances, competition, accountability, or scrutiny of public-sector unions.
More than a few eyebrows were raised after the ECB’s January Governing Council meeting, when Trichet threatened that the Bank would act “preemptively” if labor unions tried to embed higher energy and food prices into new contracts, risking a wage-price spiral.
Labor in a World of Financial CapitalismThe traditional hostility between labor unions and the world of finance should not obscure their common interest in using financial tools in an expansive and creative way.
We live in an age of financial capitalism, and the only intelligent way forward – for unions and other workers’ associations – is for these bodies to help their members make increasingly sophisticated use of the tools of risk management.
Unions and workers associations are the natural vehicles to monitor such behavior, but they must invest in the expertise to do so effectively.
Obviously, unions need to be alert to such bad behavior.
Labor unions have long pointed with satisfaction at hard-won contracts that specified a defined-benefit pension for their members.
But these unions were often without the financial sophistication to judge whether the firm set aside sufficient capital to meet its commitments decades later.
Gradually, many countries, with prodding from their trade unions, now have some form of benefit protection plan for private pensions.
The latest example is the United Kingdom, where trade unions have spurred the creation of the Pension Protection Fund, which will begin operating next year.
This means that unions should not leave the complex financial problems of designing pensions entirely to governments.
Local unions need to be involved, for the issues involved are specific to companies and workers, and cannot be resolved by governments alone.
Indeed, the essence of labor unions is that they know the unique problems of a distinct group of workers, bring focused expertise on these problems, and thus intelligently represent their interests.
Unions should instead negotiate with management the same way top executives do with their boards of directors when their complex compensation packages are worked out.
Unfortunately, instead of learning how to think in financially sophisticated ways, we still see labor unions in Europe and elsewhere dwelling too much on job security for working people.
Labor unions should negotiate with management about providing appropriate risk management to their employees in financial forms: the right kinds of insurance, options, and other investments to protect them realistically without guaranteeing their employment and without jeopardizing the productivity of the firm.
Seasonal and rural workers lack access to collective bargaining, and undocumented migrant workers avoid unions for fear that employers will retaliate by calling the immigration authorities.
Automation and other technological changes, globalization, weaker trade unions, erosion of minimum wages, financialization, and changing norms about acceptable pay gaps within enterprises have all played a role, with different weights in the United States relative to Europe.
All the demonstrators had asked for was free speech, dialogue with the government, independent unions, and an end to official corruption.
In fact, polls show that 25% of the public support gay marriage and 35% favor legal civil unions for gay couples (the position advocated by Kerry).
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