{"id":4173,"date":"2003-04-04T12:12:27","date_gmt":"2003-04-04T12:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2003-04-04T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2003-04-04T12:12:27","slug":"unions-and-business-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4173","title":{"rendered":"unions and business ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman, Times, serif\">My article on <b>&quot;The<\/p>\n<p>Legitimacy of Labor Unions,&quot;<\/b> which originally appeared in <a\n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.hofstra.edu\/Academics\/Law\/law_laborlaw.cfm\"><em>The Hofstra Labor<\/p>\n<p>and Employment Law Journal<\/em><\/a>, is going to be translated into Chinese<\/p>\n<p>for the <i>Global Law Review<\/i>, a quarterly law journal published by<\/p>\n<p>the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. I&#8217;m excited<\/p>\n<p>because an argument in favor of unions is especially important in a country<\/p>\n<p>where the right to unionize is barely recognized.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote to make you angry. According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/04\/03\/politics\/03BUSH.html\">article<\/p>\n<p>in the New York Times<\/a>, after a White House meeting on the <b>Bush<\/p>\n<p>economic plan<\/b>, &quot;Lizann Sonders, the chief investment strategist<\/p>\n<p>at Charles Schwab &amp; Company, said the tax cut is &#8216;the answer to the<\/p>\n<p>economy, is the answer to the stock market and maybe most importantly<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s the answer to bringing back trust and fairness and faith in the system.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>So a representative of a profession that has squandered public trust has<\/p>\n<p>the gall to say that &quot;trust and fairness and faith&quot; can be restored<\/p>\n<p>by granting her industry a massive tax break that would necessitate deep<\/p>\n<p>cuts in programs benefitting the poor and disadvantaged. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My article on &quot;The Legitimacy of Labor Unions,&quot; which originally appeared in The Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal, is going to be translated into Chinese for the Global Law Review, a quarterly law journal published by the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. I&#8217;m excited because an argument in favor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revitalizing-the-left"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}