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Personally, I believe that what is happening, and happened during the last fifty to sixty years has nothing to do with neoliberalism. If that were the case, we would not be seeing similar issues around the globe. We are in a global stage, as mentioned several times before, where every political and economic system has gotten mixed up, and it has become all about power control. Over the last fifty years, there has been almost an equal share of opposition parties holding power in many countries around the globe, and still, the wealth gap has widened in the majority of the countries.
While technologies are supposed to alleviate issues, instead it has given those with resources to further widen the gap.
Would Union help on this front?
Many of the union leaders have been getting unheard compensation during all these years, while the gap has been widening.
One of the issues and major concerns happens to be the promotion of mediocrity in the name of collective bargaining. This does not mean collective bargaining is wrong, but it needs to be prudent.
For example, let us take the WV teachers to strike example, the resolution was to give teachers a 5% rate increase. With such an increase, a teacher who might be making $100000 solely based on the years of experience rather than performance would get a 5K increase, whereas a budding upcoming and creative individual making $50K would see only a $2.5K.
Moreover, if we were to consider students performance vs student to pupil ratio, WV could be placed in the bottom of the state's pool.
As mentioned before, US educational spending is amongst the top three in OECD countries, but students performance at most in the middle of the stack.
Instead, promoting healthy competition that brings out creative, innovative individuals and institutions in the field of education and research should happen.
While technologies are supposed to alleviate issues, instead it has given those with resources to further widen the gap.
Would Union help on this front?
Many of the union leaders have been getting unheard compensation during all these years, while the gap has been widening.
One of the issues and major concerns happens to be the promotion of mediocrity in the name of collective bargaining. This does not mean collective bargaining is wrong, but it needs to be prudent.
For example, let us take the WV teachers to strike example, the resolution was to give teachers a 5% rate increase. With such an increase, a teacher who might be making $100000 solely based on the years of experience rather than performance would get a 5K increase, whereas a budding upcoming and creative individual making $50K would see only a $2.5K.
Moreover, if we were to consider students performance vs student to pupil ratio, WV could be placed in the bottom of the state's pool.
As mentioned before, US educational spending is amongst the top three in OECD countries, but students performance at most in the middle of the stack.
Instead, promoting healthy competition that brings out creative, innovative individuals and institutions in the field of education and research should happen.
Workers have for years faced a neoliberal onslaught administered by a bipartisan establishment of technocratic elites who have ensured the redistribution of wealth into the hands of the rich. This is an elite that has abetted the decimation of labor unions and whose primary disagreement are over how severely those expelled from the labor market should be allowed to suffer. My guest today is journalist Sarah Jaffe. We’re going to talk about the state of work, particularly the manufacturing and retail workers she writes about in recent pieces at The Nation and racked.com.
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