How do you prevent that?
Get the US to stop going OMG COMMIES EVERYWHERE!, perhaps.
How do you prevent that?
Problem is that labor-management culture was more "Anglo" in style long before the NRLB. And by the time of the New Deal, the German style system's credibility was damaged with the whole Nazi thing.German style Worker's Councils are expressly banned by FDR's NRLB. He wanted at purely antagonistic system, and got it, rather than getting both sides to work together
For example, IG Metall would never stand up for workers doing shoddy work, absenteeism and being drunk on the job like UAW has. The US Labor/Management is just too toxic, for too long
So did much of the West, yet they have different systems than we do.Get the US to stop going OMG COMMIES EVERYWHERE!, perhaps.![]()
So did much of the West, yet they have different systems than we do.
Holy Shit.
I'm going to assume it's like the bad old days of a Catholic priest sexually abusing someone and the hierarchy assumes some half-measure like sending the priest to counseling is going to be enough. Or, the way we used to handle domestic violence with ineffectual half-measures like the police just talking to the husband.
That is, the person way misjudges the seriousness of the situation, maybe in part because he or she doesn't want to admit that they don't know how to handle it.
And then you have stupid after-the-fact justifications, and that's the real galling part and where institutions really go astray.
Previously, I've read in that a piece of legislation signed by President Nixon was the primary cause for the trend of increasing healthcare costs. Have you ever heard of this theory?If I might propose a somewhat simpler solution -- the US passes Universal Health Care. Can be SP Medicare, Nixoncare, what have you, but so long as it's in place before the worst of the economic dislocations of the 1970's come to pass, unionz will be in a much better position to increase disposable income earnings for American workers, rather than having inflating health care costs eating up money spent on labor and taking up their negotiating power.
You'd have to be more specific -- Nixon's healthcare legacy is a complex one, so I would be very skeptical of any claim that seemed to rely on negative feelings toward his legacy or person rather than specific policy analysis (eg Michael Moore).Previously, I've read in that a piece of legislation signed by President Nixon was the primary cause for the trend of increasing healthcare costs. Have you ever heard of this theory?
Previously, I've read in that a piece of legislation signed by President Nixon was the primary cause for the trend of increasing healthcare costs. Have you ever heard of this theory?
You'd have to be more specific -- Nixon's healthcare legacy is a complex one, so I would be very skeptical of any claim that seemed to rely on negative feelings toward his legacy or person rather than specific policy analysis (eg Michael Moore).
During the Nixon years, we also got the law that you can't sue an HMO. Seemingly a technical change to a something which hardly seemed like a major part of the economy. Now it is.
And I don't know whether this was more Nixon or more Congress, or even a particular chair of a committee.
This was a Supreme Court decision in the 1960s. Courts are "conservative," in the sense that they're pro-institution and pro-already-powerful. I think this tends to be the case in a pretty broad range of countries.http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/history_of_labor_unions.html
' . . . the decision concerning Deering Milliken's shutdown in Darlington was an even greater setback. It gave employers the right to go out of business for any reason whatsoever, "even if vindictiveness toward the union was the reason for the liquidation" . . . '
One, that rising healthcare costs paid by the employee basically amount to a pay cut. And two, the feeling that you're not getting ahead.US healthcare: Universal healthcare supporters see their chance: 'There’s never been more support'
The Guardian [UK], Jessica Glenza, 11 April 2017.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/11/us-universal-healthcare-single-payer-rallies
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“I could tell you this – I’ve been on the job for 25 years. When I first started, I paid nothing” for healthcare, said Chris Tague, who works in road construction. He is also a part-time town supervisor in Schoharie County, New York, which voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump.
Tague’s health insurance costs grew to $20 per week, then to $50 per week, then $75, then to more than $200 per week, he said. Middle class Americans, he said, “work their asses off for nothing”.
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Do you mean members are more active and involved, or more total members?. . . more union ownership . . .
Syndicalism ?He may be speaking of the union actually owning and running the plant. Or at least, employee ownership, with all being union members.
I think what often happened in the U.S. was that unions ended up buying companies which were on the downward slide and in financial distress, like Safeway grocery stores in the early '90s.. . . employee ownership, . . .