Continuity of Income And Continuity Of Employment

[TheMastersNemesis]

We are in the new age of temporariness when it comes to employment. What the Reagan Revolution brought the American worker ws the end of the "social contract" between worker and employer. We have a new age of temporariness where all jobs are just brief periods of work separated by periods of unemployment. Job security is gone for the most part. Longevity is gone. Seniority on the job is gone. Now longer term workers are laid off first.

What voters have given up by being anti worker and anti labor and labor unions is the possibility of "continuity of employment and continuity of income". Economically a worker cannot survive without this continuity over a long period of time. Multiple jobs over a lifetime and multiple careers is a dead end. As a worker ages they lose competition power like an athlete. And there is almost a guarantee that a worker will end up in the scrap heap long before they reach retirement age.

And things will not improve until the business model changes back to valuing employees instead of considering them an unnecessary evil. So the voters can stay antilabor and the economic carnage will continue into the next generations. It will mean low pay long hours and expendability.

The more experienced older worker is no longer valued in the modern corporate business world. Longevity on the job is the lowest it has been since the end of WWII. Now employers want to get rid of workers if they have been on the job too long and actually have a few benefits.

[quaker bill]

1. Businesses value employees

when they become hard to find. This is why Keynes argued for a full employment model with government serving as the "employer of last resort". If everyone who wants a job has a job, then employers are constantly in competition for employees, and wages and benefits rise. It would be the precise opposite of today's "I am cutting your pay and benefits, but you should just be thankful you still have a job" market.

[NNN0LHI]

2. You Sir, have nailed it

Having everyone's pay, benefits and job rules patterned after non-union workers really sucks.

It was a lot better when everyone's pay, benefits and job rules were patterned after union workers.



Don