Donald Trump, like Hoover, is reigniting support for free trade. …Notwithstanding friendly ties to anti-trade labour unions, every single Democrat in the US Senate voted to reverse Trump’s trade taxes on Canada. …people are witnessing in real time how protectionism does economic damage. They...
The pipefitter test is used by local unions in the U.S. and Canada to screen candidates for union apprentice programs. The purpose of these programs is to provide candidates with an understanding of safety regulations and codes. The Pipefitter test has a passing threshold of 75% and contains ...
Unions were not strong enough to police the excess. America let multinationals define its trade and manufacturing strategy, hemorrhaging good jobs to mercantilist nations like China. The result was the wealthiest few captured literally all the rewards of growth. And 90% of America struggled to stay...
jobs to low-wage, exploited labor under the original NAFTA. Instead of standing with workers, Mexico’s traditional protection unions, many tied to the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), have historically been closely allied with employers and politicians, keeping wages low and ...
The arming of pilots has been supported by pilot's unions and is a good example of providing low- cost incentives for the private sector to play a more active and vigilant role in security provi- sion. On the regulatory front, S. 165 would impose private-sector mandates as defined in ...
The unions would take care (if they were clever) that terrestrial prices never got so high that the interstellar freetraders would have a competitive advantage. Even if Earth was devastated by war (a common science fiction scenario), we could rebuild our factories faster than we could import ...
“Trade agreements can lower prices, widen choice and create high-quality jobs. TTIP must do exactly that.” Malmstrom also called for the negotiations to be more transparent, stating that the agreement needed input from “the whole range of civil society groups: trade unions, business associati...
P.P.P.S. I am particularly sensitive to this because I did a very similar thing with Peter Schiff back before the financial crisis. (Inthis pieceI was pretty careful, but not so muchin this piece, forcing me towrite a mea culpa.) I’m not saying I’m better than Scott or Don, ...
Even if governments do not impede..there can be other hostile groups out there like trade unions, regulatory bodies, anti UK groupings and individuals like pissed off customs officials that can all or any of them make life very difficult for us..I for one don’t accept that things will ...
Trade Unions and WorKPlace orGaniZaTion135skilled workers being paid by results while their helpers were paid on time’.3This was prevalent in cotton, the potteries, the mines, and in one form or another in most industries in which piecework obtained. Elsewhere, this variant has been called th...