Zanimive povezave 02/07/2008
A Hopeful Year for Unions – New York Times Annotated
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There is little doubt that American workers need unions. Wages today are almost 10 percent lower than they were in 1973, after accounting for inflation. The share of national income devoted to workers’ wages and benefits is at its lowest since the late-1960s, while the share going to profits has surged. The decline in unionization has been a big part of the reason that workers have lost so much ground.
Pertinentno tudi za slovenske razmere. V času, ko nadutoekonomisti z vsemi kanoni streljajo po sindikatih, velja opozoriti, da so sindikati temelj, na katerem je slovensko gospodarstvo zgradilo svojo konkurenčnost. Zaostajanje plač za rastjo produktivnosti in zmernost sindikalnih voditeljev je omogočila Sloveniji mirno prejadrati tranzicijo, brez večjih socialnih pretresov. Tudi v Sloveniji delež profitov v BDP raste na račun plač, zato je možno pri kolumnistih, kot je npr. Damjan ali npr. vulgarni Mrkaić ,za njihovo kvazi-strokovno argumentacijo zaznati pristranskost v korist kapitala. Buržoazni ekonomisti še nikoli niso ugriznili roke, ki jih hrani.