It may seem heresy to my labor union obsessed mind but isn’t wage insurance for jobs lost overseas — don’t know a lot about it — sort of inherently inefficient: undermining the market sorting out?
In any case wage insurance sounds to me like a band-aid of the not very well though out variety that you would expect from the not very deeply committed government we get from Obama and the Clintons.
Deep down the only remedy for all our problems — because the only way to implement all the remedies — is re-establishing a healthy labor union density.
Which should easy enough:
just make what is already illegal by federal and many state laws actually punishable like the serious economic crime (the most serious — even if committed by the otherwise pillars of the community) that union busting seriously is;
in many progressive states criminalization should pass the legislatures if someone would just bring the issue before them (WA, OR, CA, NV, IL, NY, MD and more).
Deep down I ascribe most of the inertia on criminalizing to the sort of people who predominate in politics, economics departments and blogs like this one — human males. Human females, instinctively individual — individual gatherers — check in with an idea before they check in with the group to sense the prospects of the idea. Their group being other individual thinkers making the prospects look more doable? Males, instinctively gang oriented — instinctively carefully co-ordinating pack hunters — check first with the group and if prospects don’t look promising wont even think (not for a moment!) about the idea. Dim prospects further dimmed by the specter of a group of group thinkers — wheels within wheels of (afraid to fight) conservatism?
If just one state would start criminalizing union busting — automatically invoking RICO for systematic violations; keeping gaming to a minimum …
It may seem heresy to my labor union obsessed mind but isn’t wage insurance for jobs lost overseas — don’t know a lot about it — sort of inherently inefficient: undermining the market sorting out?
In any case wage insurance sounds to me like a band-aid of the not very well though out variety that you would expect from the not very deeply committed government we get from Obama and the Clintons.
Deep down the only remedy for all our problems — because the only way to implement all the remedies — is re-establishing a healthy labor union density.
Which should easy enough:
just make what is already illegal by federal and many state laws actually punishable like the serious economic crime (the most serious — even if committed by the otherwise pillars of the community) that union busting seriously is;
in many progressive states criminalization should pass the legislatures if someone would just bring the issue before them (WA, OR, CA, NV, IL, NY, MD and more).
Deep down I ascribe most of the inertia on criminalizing to the sort of people who predominate in politics, economics departments and blogs like this one — human males. Human females, instinctively individual — individual gatherers — check in with an idea before they check in with the group to sense the prospects of the idea. Their group being other individual thinkers making the prospects look more doable? Males, instinctively gang oriented — instinctively carefully co-ordinating pack hunters — check first with the group and if prospects don’t look promising wont even think (not for a moment!) about the idea. Dim prospects further dimmed by the specter of a group of group thinkers — wheels within wheels of (afraid to fight) conservatism?
If just one state would start criminalizing union busting — automatically invoking RICO for systematic violations; keeping gaming to a minimum …