A Economist - columnist discovers his love for the urliberale institution of trade unions in the private sector (as opposed to just in Wisconsin demonstrating public sector unions): band
"The right of workers to together to improve their bargaining position relative to employers is a straightforward implication of freedom of association, and the sort of voluntary association that results is the beating heart of the classical liberal vision of civil society. I unreservedly endorse what I'll call the 'unionism of free association. My difficulty in coming out wholeheartedly for private-sector unions as they now exist is that they are, by and large, creatures of objectionable statutes Which have badly warped the labor-capital power dynamic that would exist under the unionism of free association. "
is quoted in detail here Kevin Carson's critique of the current legal restrictions on trade unionism in the United States, following on from the Wobbly-fed study Labor Struggle: A free market model "which ends with the sentence:" You people who have whined about 'class warfare' for so long will get a taste of what class war is really all about, when the other side starts fighting back for a change. "Somehow I find it hard to believe that the new line is Economist . mobilize On verra.
Meanwhile, the real existing Industrial Workers of the World in Wisconsin for . the general strike against Walker
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