THE
ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING
NORTH AMERICAN UNIONS' ECONOMIC PARADIGM
- Workers have little interest in broad social issues, they expect their union to improve
their working conditions only and, with it, their own well-being.
- Unions should rely on their powers and not expect government to reach out a helping
hand.
- Labor shares no common interest with management, thus,
- Unions should stay outside management decision making processes, thus,
- Collective bargaining is the unions' foremost mechanism for the advancement of worker
interests.
- Labor should challenge management actions, but should neither question the legitimacy of
the capitalist system nor try to undermine its tenets.
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