Labor policy

[Darth Plagueis]

My plan.

-Support Labor Unions and American workers.
-Support Coal unions.
-Support a strong and powerful alliance between American Business and Labor Unions.
-Support Labor laws.
-Inact tough laws on China regarding how they treat our workers. Stand up for American workers.
-Repeal NAFTA, CAFTA, and get out of the WTO. Keep our sovereignty.
-Only allow Trade with countries that have workers rights agreements and labor/environmental regulations.
-Impose Tariffs on foreign goods.
-Government protection of American Business and Labor.

[Redalgo]

Our positions ought to present a lovely juxtaposition this time around, Plagueis.

- Collectivize all means of production, then give limited property rights back to the previous owners.
- Only allow worker cooperatives and sole proprietorships to do business within our borders.
- Workplace democracy is required of all firms with multiple employees.
- Forbid foreign corporations, partnerships, and other authoritarian firms from trading with our people.
- Regulate compensation ratios among workers at each co-op instead of having min. and max. wages.
- Implement a nationwide "right to work" policy but stand by many other worker protections.
- Shift some regulatory responsibilities to cooperatives.
- Provide a basic income to all residents; promote equality of opportunity and a lot of social mobility.
- Nationalism is overrated; join into larger trade and/or political unions compatible with our policies.
- Keeping inflation in check is more important than reducing unemployment.
- Abolish tariffs and customs.
- Free trade is mostly alright.

[Flake]

-Support Labor Unions and American workers.
Good
-Support Coal unions.
Alright so far
-Support a strong and powerful alliance between American Business and Labor Unions.
Looking good, not seeing many flaws
-Support Labor laws.
Might be the first policy post I didn't cringe once!
-Inact tough laws on China regarding how they treat our workers. Stand up for American workers.
But China doesn't have our workers, China has Chinese workers
-Repeal NAFTA, CAFTA, and get out of the WTO. Keep our sovereignty.
No, please, god no.
-Only allow Trade with countries that have workers rights agreements and labor/environmental regulations.
It would devastate the economy in the short and long term.
-Impose Tariffs on foreign goods.
No.
-Government protection of American Business and Labor.
Much more for Labor than Business

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

- Allow states to determine their policies toward closed shops.
- Do not require federal contractors to meet Davis-Bacon standards.
- Maintain NAFTA, CAFTA and continue to pursue bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements.
- Aggressively promote lower tariffs in countries such as South Korea and make things like foreign aid and military hardware sales contingent on lower tariffs for US-made goods.

[They not like us]

-Support Labor Unions and American workers.

okay.

-Support Coal unions.

sweet.

-Support a strong and powerful alliance between American Business and Labor Unions.

yes.

-Support Labor laws.

wow good

-Inact tough laws on China regarding how they treat our workers. Stand up for American workers.

what

-Repeal NAFTA, CAFTA, and get out of the WTO. Keep our sovereignty.

you were doing so well

-Only allow Trade with countries that have workers rights agreements and labor/environmental regulations.

not bad i suppose

-Impose Tariffs on foreign goods.

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh not sure

-Government protection of American Business and Labor.

what Flo said

[TNF]

My plan.

-Support Labor Unions and American workers. Sounds great!
-Support Coal unions. Definitely. Support the UMWA against deadbeat coal mine operators like Massey and Patriot.
-Support a strong and powerful alliance between American Business and Labor Unions. No, support a strong and powerful labor movement and tell business to go to hell. Promote co-operatives, social ownership, and unionization of private firms.
-Support Labor laws. Support and expand.
-Inact tough laws on China regarding how they treat our workers. Stand up for American workers. Definitely.
-Repeal NAFTA, CAFTA, and get out of the WTO. Keep our sovereignty. Yessir.
-Only allow Trade with countries that have workers rights agreements and  labor/environmental regulations. Absolutely.
-Impose Tariffs on foreign goods. Yes.
-Government protection of American Business and Labor. Protect labor. Business can fend for itself.

[barfbag]

I think this is the first time we've disagreed. I'm more of a free trader. Also, see my job training program thread in the economics forum. We could debate there.

Protect U.S. agribusiness from Haitian rice farms through subsidization.
Impose tariffs to protect U.S. textile goods from globalization.
Impose import quotas on foreign cars in order to help the U.S. auto industry.
Eliminate nearly all trade barriers; exports lead to jobs at home.
Continue trade agreements such as NAFTA, CAFTA, CATO, and GATT.
Assist workers who lose jobs due to globalization through job training programs.
Require open markets for U.S. goods in all trade agreements.
Continue free trade with Oman.
Continue free trade with Vietnam.
Expand free trade to Andean nations.
Expand free trade to the third world.
Remove common goods from national security export rules.
Make trade relations with China permanent.
Closed borders are bad for free trade.
Increase global connections for big and small businesses.

[traininthedistance]

The most important thing is to engage in large-scale inflation of the money supply and infrastructure investment; put those two full-employment measures into place and labor will be more able to bargain fairly and capture the value they deserve, without inadvertently impoverishing other countries or future generations.

[Cassius]

Accept the existence of Unions, but back business in confrontations with uppity unions that like to cause mischief. Oppose the closed shop and union bullying.

[Flake]

Accept the existence of Unions, but back business in confrontations with uppity unions that like to cause mischief. Oppose the closed shop and union bullying.

??

[LastVoter]

Union shop. Mandatory voting for representation at the end of every year at every non-union shop.

[They not like us]

Accept the existence of Unions, but back business in confrontations with uppity unions that like to cause mischief. Oppose the closed shop and union bullying.

You are just asking for TNF to consume your beating heart.

[DC Al Fine]

"Support Labour Unions."

What an utterly meaningless phrase.

[Antonio the Sixth]

"Support Labour Unions."

What an utterly meaningless phrase.

I'm pretty sure "oppose labor unions" was anything but a meaningless phrase to Thatcher, Reagan and their modern heirs.