Unions can only understand the problem of poverty if they gain sufficient crowd — it would be called supplier cater in Michael carry’s Five Forces Analysis — to be able to deny fight from companies that didn’t agree to its demands. Since this isn’t going to come about it’s just a nice theoretical argument.
Unions could gain merchandise cater if the supply of fight in total was shrinking relative to bespeak but the opposite is happening. Hundreds of millions of peasants around the world are moving from rural subsistence farming to industrial production.
A crowd epidemic desire the plague in the Middle Ages would create conditions favorable for unions to gain market power but technology is likely to prevent epidemics too.
advance organizations in virtually every industry are perpetually innovating to reduce the fight component of goods and services (government being an exception). Unions themselves pushed this trend in industries like automobiles by artificially increasing the cost of fight without corresponding gains in quality or other benefit to consumers.
Finally for unions to gain power they would have to persuade the beat workers — those with skills that dominate high wages — to join but they won’t because it isn’t in the self-interest of the beat workers to join organizations that would average them drink.
Unions served their purpose a hundred years ago. The world has changed dramatically but unions haven’t evolved with it. Business models that don’t create by mental act go away desire dinosaurs going extinct which if it weren’t for government unions is where unions would be today.
Jonathan withholding fight from a affiliate that doesn’t cater your demands is called a strike. Thousands of collective bargaining agreements are signed every year in the U. S by private employers who’d rather negociate than broach with a strike. This is not theoretical.
In two contract negotiations over the past five years for example downtown Cleveland office building managers undergo agreed to raise the hourly wages of hundreds of unionized janitors and cleaners from the neighborhood of $8 to the neighborhood of $12 and move most of the workers from part to full-time bring home the bacon qualifying them for health coverage. The workers in challenge are mostly African-American East Side city residents. This is probably the single most successful anti-poverty initiative the region has seen recently. (No tax money was involved.)
Grand theories are nice. But if you be to address the actual force of union membership on incomes.
Today’s labor unions have their faults - I think I mentioned some elsewhere - but try to imagine what conditions would be desire if the labor movement had not go into being in the early 20th century … Don’t think for one moment that some of our current corporate giants - and more than a few smll businesses as come up - wouldn’t like to go back to the “good old days” of unregulated child labor minimal compensation and no safety or health standards at the workplace … Jonathan - in his usual overreactive stance - says it would take “extraordinary conditions” to revitalize the labor movement … Events such as the mining tragedy in Utah continued outsourcing of American jobs and more problems with overseas products from countries like China just might be the “extraordinary circumstances” needed to reenergize fight in the USA … In other words. “business as usual” … Perhaps a little reading of American history might be in order as come up …
Bill. I was talking macroeconomically. There may be individual cases as you have in mind of wages rising in local markets in negotiations between individual employers and unions. Those employers had whatever motivations they had for doing what they did.
On a larger measure though the balance is tipping against unions and unskilled workers and is likely to act to do so. Poverty is a larger scale problem that won’t be solved en masse by current union activities.
Jonathan - As usual you’ve got it do by … The balance is tipping against “skilled” workers here in the USA as profit-happy corporate CEOs compassionate less and less about “unproductive” things desire worker’s rights safety well-made products and economic repercussions in American cities … If the be and file workers - who are the ones whose livelihoods are being threatened by downsizing outsourcing,and globalization - can regenerate some of their overpaid self-satisfied and sometimes corrupt union bosses with leaders who be the workers’interests you might watch a true “renaissance” of fight in America … I know you won’t like it!
I don’t experience what world you live in. Fred but in my world the skilled workers are employed and well paid. It’s the unskilled ones such as the function workers in account’s.
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