Michael Lind Makes the Case for Economic Populism
The Good Fight
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The Suppression of Wages
There are a number of methods of increasing or decreasing the bargaining power of workers with employers. The most important is organizer labor if workers can pool their bargaining power then they get better results in the United States. No poaching agreement which is a secret blacklist shared by employers who agree not to hire each other's former employees. Employers want more people competing for jobs than there are jobs and shorter period of unemployment insurance means you're forced back to work on less terms.
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