tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post1652856387593369789..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Szalámitaktika: How do you abolish the wages system by degrees? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-14503576900588015582015-06-22T11:23:20.114-04:002015-06-22T11:23:20.114-04:00Right on. This is it.
Right on. This is it.<br />JW Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664452827447313845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-29491285638350257402015-06-20T09:00:19.382-04:002015-06-20T09:00:19.382-04:00The propaganda hasn't worked – the culture is ...The propaganda hasn't worked – the culture is ours. Pew reports 55% of Americans under 30 years old approve of labor unions -- only 29% disapprove. Even among Republicans under 35, approval edges out disapproval 45% to 44%. <br /><br />Now we just have to give labor organizing laws those little extra working mechanisms that they are so obviously missing: dentures. Crushing use of economic pressure to obstruct employees right to establish their price setting mechanism clearly needs to be made a felony. Labor market fixing is nothing short of as injurious as anything as the Rockefellers or Carnegies ever carried off -- as well as atrophying the political sinews of the 99%. Baby teeth will not work -- and right now all most organizing laws have left are what amount to gums. <br /><br />Making union busting a felony at the state level (job loss is not the main injury -- denial of fair market participation is) opens up the potential for federal RICO prosecution. 33 states have their own RICO laws.<br /><br /><br />“But when Pew sliced and diced its responses (which Gallup did not), it found that young Americans were unions’ most fervent supporters. While 46 percent of its respondents in each of its three older age groups (30 to 49, 50 to 64, and 65-plus) viewed unions in a favorable light, fully 55 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 held a favorable view of unions, while just 29 percent held unfavorable ones. Pew even found that a slim plurality of Republicans under 35 thought well of unions: 45 percent held positive views, 44 percent negative. For that matter, 65 percent of Democrats (of all ages) thought favorably of unions, and given the towering share of Democrats (or left-of-Democrats) working in the media, new or old, the Gawker vote should have surprised no one.<br />”http://prospect.org/article/what-made-difference-gawker-boss<br />Denis Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11833367196756465896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-17183869418761909902015-06-20T00:22:17.995-04:002015-06-20T00:22:17.995-04:00It's quite a leap from step two to that curric...It's quite a leap from step two to that curriculum, Ian.Sandwichmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159060882083015637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-88226534898221380362015-06-19T21:27:30.728-04:002015-06-19T21:27:30.728-04:00Step two will be the most difficult. Imagine milli...Step two will be the most difficult. Imagine millions of workers studying Lavoie&Godley alongside Paul Edwards "A Vast Machine" and Vaclav Smil's "Energy in Nature & Society"Eubulideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00631527929485341690noreply@blogger.com