[lbo-talk] Lind on the post-union future

[Dissenting Wren]

And this is why Lind should be beaten with sticks...just until his "universal 
contributory social insurance programs" see the light of day.  Since, after all, 
public sector workers are supposed to give up health plans and pensions in the 
meantime.  Fucking tool.

----- Original Message ----
From: Chris Maisano <cgmaisano at yahoo.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 11:17:34 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Lind on the post-union future

Michael Lind on the ongoing fight in Wisconsin:

"Liberals must ask themselves whether defending archaic 1950s-style  employment 
and benefit arrangements that survive as fossil relics in the  public sector 
fits into a plausible and potentially popular vision of a  reformed American 
social contract in the 21st century. The goal of  liberal reform should be to 
phase out employer-based benefits entirely,  in favor of universal, contributory 

social insurance programs. Deprived  of employer benefits to offer their 
members, unions might still bargain  with employers over workplace rules and 
wages. But from a liberal  perspective, it would be better if workplace 
regulations were universal  and imposed by legislation, rather than piecemeal 
and achieved by  collective bargaining."

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/22/lind_unions_wisconsin/index.html

      
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