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Union busting and retaliation against unionisation efforts is prohibited in most (all?) EU countries. Of course in practice not always easy to prove.
by pergadad 7y ago
Union busting and retaliation against unionisation efforts is prohibited in most (all?) EU countries. Of course in practice not always easy to prove.
- ska 7y agoIsn't it illegal in the US also? Doesn't seem to stop it from happening.
- SolarNet 7y agoIn theory, but the US laws are a lot weaker and also not well enforced. The EU actually enforces it's laws on this subject and they are not as simple to "not technically illegal" them.
- jeffrallen 7y agoSwitzerland is not in the EU.
- spectramax 7y agoYea I feel like it’s cliche to hate on America these days. For those comparing Switzerland to USA, you’re comparing a highly homogeneous culture and highly optimized country to a land full of immigrants gathering in excess of 300 million. Americans criticize their own country more than anyone else. OP’s post not only misses the fact that Switzerland is not in the EU, but more importantly the spirit of argument is baseless with the general perception that things are better in EU.
- vinay427 7y agoAs someone now living in Switzerland, I've found it largely futile trying to explain anything about Switzerland to most non-Europeans. For starters, no one seems to bother with what countries are in the EU, let alone the EEA, let alone where Switzerland is in all of this. Apparently "everyone in Europe" has free government-paid healthcare and never has to pay for any medical expenses. I could go on...
- vonmoltke 7y agoA lot of Europeans on this site make similar statements.
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoWell, if you're willing to take one more shot at explaining the situation, I for one would be interested.
- zaarn 7y agoTbf the borders of "Europe" are fairly complicated, there is the EU itself, the EEA, the Schengen Area, the Eurozone, EFTA and CEFTA, the EUCU, the EEU, the CISFTA, the OBSEC, the Eastern partnership (or EPA), the OECD Countries, the CEI, and finally the Council of Europe. There is more that I probably forgot about but this should about cover it. None of these political areas and borders have 100% coverage amongst eachother, they're all different groups.
- vinay427 7y agoDefinitely. One could even add NATO to that alongside OECD. I don't really expect most people to understand all of these groups, but just to avoid making sweeping statements about the continent (which already has an ambiguous definition) without understanding the groups. I guess this problem of generalizing is a concern with nearly every issue, though.
- iikoolpp 7y ago> you’re comparing a highly homogeneous culture Are you talking about a different Switzerland than everyone else? A country literally made out of three different cultures (French Swiss, German Swiss and Italian Swiss)?
- rodgerd 7y agoHe's trying to hide his racism.
- microtherion 7y agoEven apart from the diversity of the natives, Zürich has roughly the same proportion of foreign born residents as San Francisco.
- rospaya 7y ago> For those comparing Switzerland to USA, you’re comparing a highly homogeneous culture and highly optimized country to a land full of immigrants gathering in excess of 300 million. Percentage wise, the Swiss have more immigrants, more foreigners and more people with immigrant backgrounds. Not to mention the whole "four official languages" thing.
- icelancer 7y agoIf you exclude Western Europeans from your "immigrants" statement, which is what the parent comment was clearly implying, it's not even close to true.
- carlob 7y agoAnd while we're at it we can count non-Caucasian Americans as immigrants /s
- resfirestar 7y agoIt doesn't seem clear at all that having many different kinds of Western Europeans makes for a "highly homogeneous" culture compared to neighboring countries that generally have only one kind of Western European.
- icelancer 7y agoThe culture between Italy and France is much closer than Italy and Algeria. For as much difference there is between the countries in Western Europe, there are far more similarities amongst them compared to other continents and larger regions. Counting Italians as "immigrants" is at the very least slightly misleading.
- ClumsyPilot 7y agoIt is not misleading at all, you have to learn a new language, learn to deal with a different government and laws, we are talking several years of effort until you get accustomed. The differences between accepted social behaviour in Britain, Spain and Poland are significant too. Sure, if you came from Saudi, you'll feel more out of place. But it's not trivial.
- Daishiman 7y ago20% of the Swiss working population is made of immigrants, plus many more in temporary work contracts. Swiss cities where most of the economic value is being created are far from homogenous.
- socialdemocrat 7y agoI know Americans love to throw the homogenous at us in Norway. Sure I can get it, although more people are foreign born in Norway. Buy Switzerland homogenous?!! Are you smoking crack? Do you have any clue what you are talking about? The US is far more united as a country. Frankly I think there is an underlying American racist assumption to these claims. Americans view diversity entirely in terms of skin color. They think culture, mindset and values are embedded in your skin pigment. By American logic Hitler could not possibly have been a racist because he was just killing other white people.