Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Wage Rates: Unions, Minimum Wage Laws, and Employer Oligopoly Message-ID: <1376@dciem.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 19:17:15 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.1376 Posted: Sat Feb 9 19:17:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 22:20:54 EST References: <811@ratex.UUCP> <593@tty3b.UUCP> <1080@amdahl.UUCP> <595@tty3b.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 53 Summary: >In article <595@tty3b.UUCP> mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) writes: >>The consequences are such only if capital is allowed to >>define economic fact. Unemployment is a poltical problem, not an >>economic fact. That it remains is evidence of lack of >>political will to solve it. >> >>Mike Kelly > >But Mike, every time somebody points out the political actions needed >to solve the unemployment problem, you get upset. The three things >usually pointed to are: > >1) Getting rid of the minimum wage laws. >2) Placing labor and corporate monopolies on equal legal footing. >3) Lowering the welfare payment levels to the point where working is > preferable to staying in the program. > >Do you have a counter-proposal for political action that will solve the >unemployment problem? > >