Allows companies to opt out of national labor protection rules if they reach in-house deals on pay and conditions with the consent of a majority of their staff – and not the trade unions.
Anyone not in favor gets the sack, all in favor? Yay, democracy works!
Yeah, there's a big push to get the same change to Finland as well. Lots of bullshit about how the unions are bad for business AND employees and how it would be easier if things could be negotiated locally. ...Which means that if company A wants to pay less than minimum acceptable wages and they manage to find morons who would work for less than they can get then they should be allowed to do so. ...Or saying stuff like "we can either stop paying you extra for work at weekends or we have to lay off 40% of you. Which would you prefer?" ...And other means of blackmailing folks to accept bad pay or risk losing their jobs completely.
I think every "centre left" party gets to a point where the cushy "consultancy" positions in big companies offered for toeing the line becomes just too tempting, happened to the Australian Labor Party and British Labour and is just more so with the US Democrats. And then there's the chorus of "there is no alternative" to the accepted neoliberal line being sang even in "liberal" outlets like the New York Times and the
Guardian.The French way of life is under threat from economic reality
Pigs arse, economic decisions aren't forces of nature. They are decided by human beings. The grand experiments of neoliberalism and globalisation have had a decidedly spotty record on the ground and have absolutely benefited some classes better than others and it's led to a resurgence in the reactionary right worldwide because the losers of our current systems aren't being listened to and our centre left parties are seen as selling out.
