I can put on my resume both being a longshoreman (B) and busting a longshore house. I've been a teamster too.
The Austrian Economists fancy themselves value-neutral scientists, but I part company with them on unions, upon which they get very emotional. To many of them, unions are the bogeyman.
Here the esteemed Gary North slams, http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/04/gary-north/state-of-the-unions-bad/ and North's nemesis in Austrian Econ, Mish, agrees.
Now, first one distinction must be made. Back in my labor relations days, "house unions" were anathema, and pretty much an illegal practice with the NLRB. Today, government unions are house unions, so they are a non-starter in any discussion of unions, as you will see.
I listened recently to a young professor present his first book in which he entitled "What Unions No Longer Do." I blogged that here... his thesis was unions closed the wage gap.
Elsewhere here I have said:
As capitalism formed when the religious authorities went slack on the usury questions, so "interest" cold be reintroduced and capital could aggregate, the state and usurers could join to form gargantuan enterprises that crushed all in their path, especially the journeyman (paid daily.) Whereas at least communism has anarchy as its end game, capitalism necessarily ends in fascism.
The decline of unions in USA is not good thing, because we have decline but no improvement in management. Things are not getting better. And we can track the decline in unions and the rise of fascism in USA.
When Hoffa was whacked, he was working against fascism. After that and PATCO, union leadership simply sold out. So fascism has grown unabated. Small business is oppressed under fascism, but they are not organized and militant like unions must be. When labor rediscovers its anti-fascist roots, we'll get some freedom back.
Honor labor.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
The Austrian Economists fancy themselves value-neutral scientists, but I part company with them on unions, upon which they get very emotional. To many of them, unions are the bogeyman.
Here the esteemed Gary North slams, http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/04/gary-north/state-of-the-unions-bad/ and North's nemesis in Austrian Econ, Mish, agrees.
Now, first one distinction must be made. Back in my labor relations days, "house unions" were anathema, and pretty much an illegal practice with the NLRB. Today, government unions are house unions, so they are a non-starter in any discussion of unions, as you will see.
I listened recently to a young professor present his first book in which he entitled "What Unions No Longer Do." I blogged that here... his thesis was unions closed the wage gap.
Elsewhere here I have said:
Unions are private associations and government should have no part in their activities. There is no such thing as an outrageous union demand, only outrageous management concessions. People say, "there are unions, therefore there are problems." In fact, "there are problems, therefore there are unions." Well managed companies are not unionized, because the treat workers fair. The best place in the world to make autos right now is Detroit. There is no place on earth with so much talent and skill concentrated from auto design down to factory assembly.And all of this misses the one key reason for unions: they grew as an organic anti-fascist movement. Unions are the only check on fascism... not academia, not government house unions(of course), not military... not religion, not medicine, not business... everyone of those actually welcomes fascism when it gets down to it.
As capitalism formed when the religious authorities went slack on the usury questions, so "interest" cold be reintroduced and capital could aggregate, the state and usurers could join to form gargantuan enterprises that crushed all in their path, especially the journeyman (paid daily.) Whereas at least communism has anarchy as its end game, capitalism necessarily ends in fascism.
The decline of unions in USA is not good thing, because we have decline but no improvement in management. Things are not getting better. And we can track the decline in unions and the rise of fascism in USA.
When Hoffa was whacked, he was working against fascism. After that and PATCO, union leadership simply sold out. So fascism has grown unabated. Small business is oppressed under fascism, but they are not organized and militant like unions must be. When labor rediscovers its anti-fascist roots, we'll get some freedom back.
Honor labor.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
4 comments:
What other alternative is there to interest? How can money be made from loans or mortgages then?
What if making money from loans and mortgages is unethical, because it does harm?
If you need to make money with savings, make equity investments in business.
What if someone needs to borrow money to buy a home, and not a business? The loaner holds equity in the home until the borrowed money is paid off? How would the money loaner make money in this instance? Or just charge set fees instead of instead of interest?
Why would someone want to buy a home, and not work with others to build one? What did we do previous to about 1920? The other 5000 years and all places? if charging interest wrong because it does harm, then there are no instances in which it can be good. Fees instead of interest is interest.
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