Re: [Pen-l] Summers finds (trade union) religion

[Robert Naiman <naiman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As is well known, Mr. Summers possesses that important life skill
which the John Cusack character in "Grosse Point Blank" referred to as
"moral flexibility."



On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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