{"id":183854,"date":"2012-11-01T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/01\/and-this-is-why-targeted-wildcat-strikes-are-necessary\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T13:11:00","slug":"and-this-is-why-targeted-wildcat-strikes-are-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/01\/and-this-is-why-targeted-wildcat-strikes-are-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"And This is Why Targeted Wildcat Strikes are Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because just about every official institution at every level is virulently anti-union.  Case in point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/working\/entry\/14092\/world_banks_anti-labor_index_is_a_dirty_business\/\">the World Bank<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The World Bank has taken the extremely dubious science of deregulation one step further by creating a guide, known as the Doing Business report, that quantifies the regulatory \u201cburden\u201d that investors may face in various countries. The 2013 report was released this week.<\/p>\n<p>Echoing the corporate \u201cjob creator\u201d mythology of the Washington consensus, Doing Business encourages financiers and governments to erode public-interest protections, including safeguards for unions and workers. Labor groups say the publication&#8217;s warped views on regulation and worker protections effectively gives a statistical justification for leveraging economic aid or investment to pressure countries to privatize, deregulate and undermine unions.<\/p>\n<p>Labor advocates are particularly critical of the section of the report that crystallizes these views, the \u201cEmploying Workers Indicator\u201d (EWI) which purports to measure labor policy &#8220;as it affects the hiring and redundancy of workers and the rigidity of working hours.&#8221; Despite the World Bank\u2019s past assurances that its analysis of labor regulations won&#8217;t factor into the main rankings on business friendliness, critics fear that these data nonetheless filter into the report&#8217;s evaluations, and in turn imply labor laws essentially impede development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not just the &#8220;technocrats&#8221; who have this opinion.  It&#8217;s the overwhelming majority on the so-called &#8220;center-left&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever you hear a Democrat talking about &#8220;training&#8221; so that workers are ready for &#8220;the new economy&#8221;, they are saying that they think that labor unions are an anachronism, and they won&#8217;t do anything to support them.<\/p>\n<p>We need a real Labo(u)r party in the United States, because the political establishment is hostile to unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because just about every official institution at every level is virulently anti-union. Case in point, the World Bank: The World Bank has taken the extremely dubious science of deregulation one step further by creating a guide, known as the Doing Business report, that quantifies the regulatory \u201cburden\u201d that investors may face in various countries. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1023,978,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-labor","category-politics","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}