Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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And yet still, despite your more limited economic freedom, you're still creating a more productive economy.
So it could work.
It just has, the system has to be designed right.
And I think social democracies were designed the right way.
I think any future democratic socialism after social democracy would have to be designed the right way.
This is just sectoral or actually in this case, centralized wage bargaining.
So setting the wages at a level that Ford can afford, but a level that would probably be too expensive for Chrysler and the automotive sector would benefit GM significantly.
because they're drawing what we could call excess profits.
Because GM, if the GM itself could potentially have to deal with just the enterprise of GM workers bargaining for wages, and if they saw their profitability was high, they would know their leverage, and they would say, pay us even more or else we're going to go on strike.
Right.
But instead, they're accepting slightly lower wages than they would have otherwise had in return for the company having excess profits that they're, through both the state, their union, and sometimes, like, there's worker councils or whatever else.
They're playing a role in saying, okay, we're going to make sure this excess profit is actually invested productively in order to expand employment and, you know, just output.
No, I would disagree.
So I think a union's interest is in what's collectively bargaining on behalf of workers.
Because in certain cases, you know, I am right now a manager at The Nation magazine, right?
If I have a problem with my working conditions or I need a raise or whatever else, I could, with my skill set, my background, my role in the company...
I could go to my boss, the owner of the nation, and say, okay, I need to renegotiate my contract on these terms.
I could bargain, right?
Now, if I was an ordinary worker at a CVS or something, if I didn't like my conditions and I went to my boss and said, hey, I need a $2 raise and I need to be home by 8.30 because I have obligations at home.
The boss would probably say, I'm sorry, that's not possible, right?
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