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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:07 PM Original message |
A question for economists and the like: the causes and effects of the pay gap? Ways to combat it? |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. Unions. |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Too simple. Unionizing is ineffective because scabs are found globally for larger corporations |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. Simply put: bargaining power |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. What is a worker-level response that can foment a redistrubition of those gains? |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:21 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. World wide, I can think of only three things that have worked |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Doesn't rampant globalization remit the effect of unions for the largest corporations? |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Not as much as you would think |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. What are the obstacles to unionization that prevent this from occurring? |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. A number of things, but especially the National Labor Relations Act |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 05:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Thanks for the insight. What are your thoughts on Taft-Hartley? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
4. Especially when they get paid big bucks to screw up the company. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
9. progressive tax rates |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 02:33 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Keeping up with the Dow Joneses has always been about petty one upmanship, though |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 03:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I am using post hoc ergo propter hoc |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
14. Collectivization |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
15. The "Greed is Good" ethos of the Reagan 80's |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. Don't They Still Get Tax Incentives For Outsourcing? |
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Mike03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
17. A possible analogy |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-17-07 05:05 PM Response to Original message |
19. Shareholder revolt. n/t |
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