[lbo-talk] JetBlue: Outsourcing Our Safety

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org
Sun Oct 2 15:54:20 PDT 2005


----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>

Nathan Newman wrote:
>And you choose to insist that those are references not to those
>GOVERNMENTS'
>poor regulatory and labor relations.

-The responsibility for regulating the safety of US airlines lies with -the US government and no one else really.

But formal regulation is irrelevent if the actual maintenance is being done in countries where US inspectors don't operate.

Regulation is not some Platonic form-- it's often dependent on workers being able to blow the whistle on employers violating the law, since the government has too few inspectors. If workers rights are weak, formal regulation has little effect.


>But you aren't attacking the trogodytes. You're attacking labor
>progressives.
-Coulda fooled me from their rhetoric.

Coulda fooled yourself.

Nathan



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