In These Times

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• • 02 Feb 09
  • 7:02 pm

  One might have expected better of Prof. Moberg. The American working class is better off now than it was 20 years ago, but it has lost ground relatively to the entrepreneurial, professional, and managerial classes. The reason has not been the weakness of unions. The vast majority of jobs in America are found in small business, which historically has not been fallow ground for unionization. Three reasons explain this relative decline: inflation, illegal immigration, and poor public schools. When wages do not keep pace with inflation, real incomes decline. Workers have struggled to keep pace in America, and thus the relative …

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• • 02 Feb 09
  • 9:36 pm

  The whole point of an election to determine union representation is to create workplace democracy. Let majority rule on whether to have a union. Yet the secret ballot is basic to democracy. Union organizers, supported by Democrats in Congress, have rejected the secret ballot because they have a losing record. This is purely a power grab -- at the expense of the worker who will lose the secret ballot. Moberg tries to jstify this loss of a worker's right to the secret ballot by his lament over an increase in income inequality. He doesn't address the root causes, which leads one …

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