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To: Ms. AntiFeminazi
That's not entirely true. One of them said they wanted Exxon\Mobile to agree to pay each employee's family member $15,000 for salary. They feel this would in some way help the environment. I could not get an explanation why.
137 posted on 06/03/2002 1:30:01 PM PDT by LloydChristmas
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To: LloydChristmas
One of them said they wanted Exxon\Mobile to agree to pay each employee's family member $15,000 for salary. They feel this would in some way help the environment. I could not get an explanation why.

The proponents of the other main anti-globalization strategy see in the free mobility of capital and the restriction of the movement of workers the cause of the dramatic lowering of wages internationally ("the race to the bottom", as Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello call it) (Brecher and Costello 1994). Their solution is to lift restrictions and penalties on the movement of workers from nation state to nation state. They would use the growing supra- national coordinating bodies (e.g., the WTO, ILO, WB, IMF, UN) that have, up until now, been largely built to organize the free flow of capital throughout the planet (under the confusing banner of "free trade") as sites for struggle for global workers' rights. Their demands and slogans include a "global minimum wage" and "workers' rights are universal human rights". They would use the supra-national institutions now under construction the way pro-worker activists had used the post-WWII nation state in Western Europe and North America to impose the right to unionize, restrictions on exploitation, and a high wage policy on capitalists. Those who support this strategy are "supra- national Keynesians".

This approach is, of course, diametrically opposed to the "localist" one. Instead of pushing for the restriction of the movement of capital, it proposes the lowering of the costs of workers' locomotion and demands an "even playing field" for workers internationally, especially in the guarantee of universal rights and benefits for workers independent of their origin. Implicit in this strategy is the increasing homogenization of global wages (and hence a reduction of wages of those workers on the top of the hierarchy). This parenthetical consequence is its "secret" when being advocated in regions of high relative wages.

They were contradicting themselves...again.

138 posted on 06/03/2002 1:42:06 PM PDT by Ms. AntiFeminazi
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