The Importance of Collective Bargaining

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There's no single magic bullet but I think that if we're going to get beyond both anti-labor neoliberalism and neoliberal globalism which is really unilateral liberalism. If you're trading partners cheating or as state capitals like China it's not really free trade it's one way free trade, he says. The Biden administration has applied the inflation reduction act subsidies for manufacturing mostly green manufacturing in a lot of ways that I disagree with so for example they want all employers to provide child care i don't think that's a job of the employers howeverI think it's perfectly legitimate to say that if you're getting subsidy from the government or a tax break or if you're a contractor then

Michael Lind is a writer and professor of the practice at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the co-founder of the think tank New America and the author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite and, most recently, Hell to Pay: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Michael Lind discuss whether one’s stances towards free trade, taxation, and workers’ rights are still a reliable predictor of voters’ broader political identity; why Lind, though he supports many economically progressive policies, is often classed as a conservative; and whether efforts to rebuild labor power and reinvigorate national industrial policy will succeed in improving the economy for ordinary people.

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