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Please read the actual article. It's much more complicated than that. France has incredibly strong unions, and yet their costs are a fraction of the US's.
by xxpor 4y ago
Please read the actual article. It's much more complicated than that. France has incredibly strong unions, and yet their costs are a fraction of the US's.
- anonyme-honteux 4y agoGermany has unions four time stronger than France and it has no issue building stuff. Union bashing is dumb story telling to keep the taxes of billionaires low.
- masklinn 4y ago> it has no issue building stuff. Berlin airport.
- dev_daftly 4y agoThe version of unions in the US is completely different than in most countries.
- anonyme-honteux 4y agoSo what do you think that the US plutocrats would welcome German style strong unions efficient at negociating higher salaries?
- inglor_cz 4y ago"Unions" are a generic term, much like "clergy" is. Generalizations about "clergy" do not make much sense if you want to cover Iranian Ayatollahs and Buryat Lamas at the same time. Same about unions. The context changes across the globe.
- anonyme-honteux 4y agoThe relevant context here is that everything is done to crush any kind of wannabe unions in the united states of America, unlike say in Germany or Northern Europe. I come from France where the desire from the elite to crush unions is also strong, but the USA is yet another level. Given that context the unions that do exist today in the USA have been selected for their survival skills more than anything else. Like always you can only reap what you sow
- HDThoreaun 4y agoI did. My conclusion is that the issue is over politicization as I said. Every interested party wants a piece of the pie, that includes unions, but it also includes everyone else in a 100 mile radius.
- anonyme-honteux 4y agoI think your error here is that you assume that politics do not exist everywhere people are involved. A tram recently got built where my parents live near Paris. They had to involve something like 15 cities, 3 departments, one region, the French state, and the european union. That was lots of people who wanted to have their way. It slowed things down. But it got built anyway and now it works.
- bombcar 4y agoI take "over politicized" to refer to what the article was saying about how many of the various departments are elected, and how that causes delay. The US finds it hard to delegate trust on these things, and parties throw up objections over and over again, either because they want to kill the projector because they want to cover their ass from those that want to kill it.