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louis c

(8,652 posts) Sat Jul 9, 2016, 06:47 AM Jul 2016

Finally, Somebody Speaks to What is Really Causing Wage Inequality

Labor Secretary Tom Perez spoke to the issue of slow wage growth. He describes what I've long professed, wages grow when workers unionize.

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Perez participated in the discussions between Verizon and the Communications Workers of America back in May, which helped resolve a 40,000-worker strike. Verizon owns AOL, which is the parent company of HuffPost.

“Those are really good middle-class jobs,” he said of the Verizon workers’ jobs. “The more you strengthen collective bargaining, the more you strengthen the middle class. You get that through either unionization, or a workplace culture where workers have a strong voice at the table.”

At this stage in the economic recovery, the problem isn’t necessarily that unemployment is too high — it’s been below 5 percent for months — but that workers who do still have jobs aren’t seeing more in their paychecks.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tom-perez-more-unions_us_577fcc76e4b0c590f7e911e5?section=

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Finally, Somebody Speaks to What is Really Causing Wage Inequality (Original Post) louis c Jul 2016 OP

Don't forget to include monopolization seabeckind Jul 2016 #1

seabeckind

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1. Don't forget to include monopolization

Reply to louis c (Original post)

Sat Jul 9, 2016, 07:37 AM

Jul 2016

By single companies or collusion between companies.

This monopolization occurs on the supply side of the services and products

and the supply of jobs.

In effect the workers have to bid for jobs, rather than having the corporations bid for labor.

Verizon? Who are their actual competitors?

Bust them up. All of them. All industries. Take them apart. Put labor on the boards.

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