Robert Naiman wrote:
From the speech at Brookings:
"If we want to propel this economy forward [and] have a sound
expansion, it has to be an expansion whose benefits are more broadly
shared," he said. That involves tax policy and education, he said, but
also "goes to the question of having a healthy and well-functioning
trade union movement. . . . It is hard to avoid the conclusion that
the way in which our labor laws have functioned, and have been
enforced and been acted on over many years, have not been constructive
from the point of view of having a healthy trade union movement. And
an attempt to redress that balance seems to me something that is
appropriate at such a time."
Who knew?
Actually, the scumbags that put a full page ad in the NY Times last week
opposing EFCA had a Larry Summers quote at the top:
"Another cause of long-term unemployment is unionization. High union
wages that exceed the competitive market rate are likely to cause job
losses in the unionized sector of the economy. Also, those who lose
high-wage union jobs are often reluctant to accept alternative low-wage
employment."
http://fmpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/01/summers-on-big-labor.html
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