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More fundamentally, monetary unions – in a broader sense – have existed not only within single states, but also in groups of sovereign states, the gold standard being the most notable example in history.
The experience of such monetary unions offers two lessons.
But they also included workers – both blue- and white-collar – who were among the losers from globalization, but who nonetheless remained loyal, either because they were socially and religiously conservative, or because center-left parties were formally supporters of unions, workers’ rights, and entitlement programs.
Orphan IdeasCHICAGO – Since the United States Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” decision, which prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporations and unions, concern about business interests’ influence over US elections has been growing.
From venture capital to telecommunications, from the construction industry to teachers’ unions, there is plenty of demand for evidence that celebrates the benefits of these industries and justifies (implicitly or explicitly) government subsidies to them.
It is the result of enormous corporate re-structuring over the past several years, which increased labor productivity, and of German trade unions’ willingness to accept modest wage increases.
Even in the current period of growing optimism about the German economy, the nation’s trade unions are showing themselves to be moderate.
Public sector unions also can affect a nation’s competitiveness in global markets, albeit indirectly.
An enlightened corporate state, where unions fully support growth and competitiveness objectives, can deliver the economic goods as well as more de-centralized systems.
A further lesson for Sarkozy from Germany is that an enlightened corporate state needs supportive political leadership as well as accommodating trade unions.
On the contrary, she supports an independent ECB and has let Germany’s trade unions and companies know that they will have to live with a strong currency and an anti-inflationary monetary policy.
What Sarkozy has announced so far is his intention to cut income taxes, reform public sector unions, and give tax breaks for overtime work.
These social democrats were once part of a socialist, revolutionary, or reformist left, tightly allied with labor unions.
The Frente Amplio (FA) brings together nearly all the country’s left-wing groups and has the loyal support of labor unions.
A labor policy favorable to workers and unions revived Wage Councils for setting pay.
Unions are teaching the government a lesson and the government backs down.
In each country, a number of prices are rigid, because sellers resist selling cheaper, as low productivity gains and wage defense by unions leave no margin for lower prices.
The Dark Side of Voting TechnologyNEW YORK – According to an unpublished “kitchen table survey,” conducted before last November’s presidential election in the United States, approximately 95% of the predominantly Hispanic members of one of America’s largest domestic unions preferred the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to her Republican opponent Donald Trump.
Whatever else the instruments of communication have achieved, they have not made good the loss of the great intermediary institutions that once served to connect people and government - the voluntary associations so much praised by Alexis de Tocqueville, trade unions, and the political parties themselves, with all their local activity and strength.
The old alliance between intellectual idealists and trade unions gave way to rainbow coalitions of intellectuals, non-whites, feminists, and gays.
The single currency’s advocates are right about one thing: political motives have always underpinned the establishment of monetary unions, from Latin America’s in the period from 1865 to 1927 to that between Ireland and Britain from 1922 to 1979.
But they are missing a crucial point: politics is also the reason for these unions’ dissolution.
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher successfully promoted lower income taxes, privatization of government enterprises, weaker unions, and a generally smaller role for government.
Customs unions typically bring together neighboring countries, which then trade across tariff- and quota-free frontiers and apply common tariffs for trade with other countries.
There have been several customs unions around the world, but none as successful as the EU’s.
The laws of economics, they assert, ensure that in the long run there will be jobs for everyone who wants them, so long as government does not interfere in market processes by setting minimum wages or ensuring job security, or so long as unions don't drive up wages excessively.
They have a rather closed system of big corporations and big labour unions loosely directed by an interventionist government with the collaboration of big banks.
Organizations that 25 to 30 years ago were a community’s focal point -- churches, say, or the American Red Cross, or labor unions -- lost as much as 60% of their active members and volunteers over the years.
Virtually all the major civic institutions that endure to this day -- the YWCA, the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), labor unions, the Boys Scouts, the League of Women Voters and many more -- were created.
Alert to a worsening tradeoff between inflation and unemployment, Keynesian policymakers tried to sustain the boom through incomes policy – controlling wage costs by concluding national agreements with trade unions.
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