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  Tassle-loafered anarchosyndicalists FTW!

  I'm in Europe, so I guess that makes me even more left coast and er "tassle-loafered" :/

  "the luxury of a union. Of course that was at the expense of those not in a union."

  I love this. Are you serious? An organized workforce is only bad for the shareholders of a business, as it means that more of the company's income is kept by the workers who created it, rather than the owners who cream the surplus off the top.

  Workers elsewhere benefit from the climate of higher wages, even internationally. Less jobs would get outsourced to China if it wasn't for their government cracking down hard on workers (and communities protesting against factories dumping their waste on them).

  Workplace organization isn't a "luxury" unless you think that:
  

  • the 8 hour day
    
  • pensions
    
  • healthcare
    
  • a living wage
    
  • a working environment that won't kill or sterilise you
    
  • security
    
  • paid holiday
    
  ...are some kind of unreasonable, effete European fad.

  (I'd never heard anyone deride universal healthcare as as some kind of state subsidy of business before...)On Pearlstein: 'A Detroit bankruptcy beats a bailout' -- but what do you think? posted 1 year ago 29 Responses

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  2 words: Just Transition

  I just want to back up the point made above:
  Saying that the auto workers need to lose their benefits as part of a plan for the car industry absolutely stinks.

  You aren't going to build efficient cars without workers, shafting them for the sustained failures of their bosses helps absolutely no-one.

  They need jobs and healthcare. People need environmentally-friendly transport. Management, investors, the rest can go hang.On Pearlstein: 'A Detroit bankruptcy beats a bailout' -- but what do you think? posted 1 year ago 29 Responses