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re dropped in response to my post criticising the earlier draft but i reckon i m going to claim the credit anyway go me unfortunately many of the other problems remain the overall anti regulatory thrust of the paper certainly has not changed one iota the authors would probably argue that they re arguing for deregulation of business at the same time as the development of enhanced social protections systems but really who are they trying to kid they re telling employers exactly what they want to hear which is that it s not up to employers to be fair they just do what the market says and the state will take up the slack this not only ignores the very low likelihood that states can or will step in but also the enormous benefit to workers businesses and society as a whole of involving workers in decision making at work what s gone the may 25 th draft drops the claim that technology adoption is negatively associated with the strictness of labor regulations in the earlier version this was referenced to a paper that actually found that the association between regulation and technology use varied with the type of regulation high minimum wages were positively associated with digital technology use also dropped is the reference to france s requirement for businesses with more than 49 employees to have a joint safety and health committee in the earlier draft this was given as an example of burdensome regulation in the context of a claim that business friendly regulation is associated with lower levels of poverty the latter claim remains but we are at least not being asked to accept that a requirement for employers to talk to workers about how to improve safety is a burdensome regulation the incorrect claim that labor regulations apply only to formal work has been replaced with most governments are unable to regulate a substantial part of the economy para 337 of may 25 th draft on the other hand the equally incorrect claim that labour regulations cover few only formal workers whose labor is observed regulated and taxed by the state is left unchanged finally the ludicrous argument that there is a need to level the playfield in favour of businesses is gone we should be thankful for small mercies i suppose but the claim that minimum wages and the regulation of firing are economically damaging remains unchanged what s still there the may 25 th draft maintains its bizarre attempt to argue that we have napoleon to blame for burdensome and ill fitting labour regulation in emerging economies it still tries to argue that pension schemes jointly funded by workers and employers are economically counterproductive on the basis of a single paper that also reports evidence that the introduction of this type of pension in ethiopia has had significant positive effects it still tries to argue that heavier regulations are a cause of informal employment on the basis of one out of date comparative report that looked only at the procedural aspects of starting a business where to now the draft report is still a work in progress but none of the changes made since the april 20th draft have made any real difference it is still a shoddy and potentially dangerous piece of work at this stage there seems little prospect of it being significantly improved i ve heard people in other international organizations express shock and bemusement that the bank could release such an embarassingly bad paper as a flagship report the tragedy of it is that it would be really useful to have a serious and properly informed discussion about the topics that it raises it is long past time that we talked about the balance between the resposibilities of the state of businesses of trade unions and of individuals there is an obvious need to think critically about existing models particularly about how to make labour rights effective for non standard and informal sector workers but wdr2019 is not shaping up to be a useful contribution to that discussion like share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading april 30 2018 the world development report 2019 no steps forward 3 steps back posted by new unionism under economics ilo world bank comments off on the world development report 2019 no steps forward 3 steps back conor cradden 30 april 2018 i ve just read the april 20th draft of the 2019 world development report on the changing nature of work duncan green of oxfam has already given a useful overall assessment of an earlier draft that you can read here duncan picks up in particular on the report s absolute neglect of questions of power and its rather magical thinking about what might be possible in terms of the creation of social safety nets an even more critical analysis is posted here by the ituc s peter bakvis a longtime world bank watcher peter doesn t mince his words on the topic of the report s attitude to labour regulation but i think he s still being too diplomatic i ve already taken issue with the bank s overall approach based on a look at the concept note that was released in february among the other questions i raised in that piece was why the bank has chosen to focus on work and employment in 2019 they know perfectly well that next year is the international labour organization s 100 th anniversary and that it will be producing a major report on the future of work given that the raison d être of the ilo is to agree international law on labour and employment producing a report whose main aim is to attack labour regulation adds insult to injury what s even more insulting is that the argument in the report is so breathtakingly bad the world bank has a poor record when it comes to work and employment but this is a new low having produced a report that is intellectually dishonest where it is not simply incompetent the authors have managed the extraordinary feat of rolling their tanks onto the ilo s lawn only to fire off a series of squibs that are not so much damp as soaking wet it s hard to get into the detail of what the authors do wrong without very quickly running into the thousands of words so this sort of analysis is not well suited to a social media format the short version below is extremely compressed and doesn t give examples of how the authors do what they do this is kind of important a lot of what i want to highlight is the inherent dishonesty of the method so please take a look at the long version if you can more like share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading march 5 2018 the world bank and the changing nature of work by conor cradden posted by new unionism under economics world bank 4 comments the world bank has just released a concept note for its 2019 world development report wdr which is going to be about the changing nature of work the wdr is the bank s flagship research and policy publication every year it chooses some development related topic and produces what s intended to be a headline grabbing report on it this has been going on since 1978 topics have included everything from conflict to climate change to education to finance work is one of the few subjects to have been a theme of the wdr more than once unfortunately it s also the subject about which the bank is most frequently on the wrong side of the argument world bank president jim kim more like share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading february 8 2018 ilo and the future of work posted by newunionism under ilo internationalism rights comments off on ilo and the future of work the paper below has been submitted for open discussion by members and friends of the new unionism network 1 our conclusions will be presented to the international labour organisation ilo on or before 30th april 2018 in the run up to their centenary future of work project in order to join the discussion we suggest you look at this ilo paper first download in particular we are concerned with chapter 5 the governance of work what do you think we have a draft reply below and we invite you to share your feedback thoughts and or questions because many of you work directly with the ilo at local or global level our discussion will take place with in an anonymised meeting room here safe space room22 more like share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading december 29 2017 solidarity and the gig economy by peter hall jones posted by newunionism under alt management creativity internationalism new unionism organizing social network unionism workplace democracy 4 comments solidarity and the gig economy by peter hall jones for the new unionism network it s a credit to the tireless efforts of professor guy standing that the word precariat has made its way into most english dictionaries in case you re not up to speed and who is these days it means the class of people who are poor and do not have secure jobs cambridge dictionary sure there has been a bit of debate around whether this group really constitutes a separate class but nobody disputes that the phenomenon itself is very real almost 40 of young workers in the oecd are in non standard work such as contract or temporary work or involuntary part time employment more at global level more than 60 of workers predominantly women are in temporary part time or short term jobs in which wages are falling ilo 2015 and of the top 20 global employers in 2017 five are outsourcing and workforce solutions companies more in the twenty first century dolly parton s nine to five just doesn t work as an anthem anymore naturally the english language being what it is we have a range of apolitical synonyms for the word precariat workers who survive by performing a series of temporary jobs and or juggle bits and pieces of contract work are called casuals or freelancers or even micro entrepreneurs their stamping ground is the gig economy it s all very rock n roll being your own boss meeting endless new people wide horizons flexible hours maximum variety what s not to like in fact there is a lot of research to suggest that the majority of such independent workers in the usa and europe at least have chosen to work this way eg mckinsey global 2016 at this point you might like to reflect for a moment upon the use of the word choice in industrial relations i was one of a generation who chose to go on the dole in new zealand in the 1980s in reality the employment market had collapsed around our ears there were no jobs for us to go to the only real choice we had was whether or not to interpret our situation in a cheerful light anyway choice or no choice all this is about to change more like share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading november 23 2016 workplace democracy versions and subversions posted by newunionism under alt management employers workplace democracy comments off on workplace democracy versions and subversions we want the mines canals railways handed over to democratically organized workers associations we want these associations to be models for agriculture industry and trade so declared the anarchist pierre joseph proudhon in his 1848 election manifesto prior to this demands for workplace democracy had been largely the preserve of liberal democrats such as jean jacques rousseau and john dewey then soon afterwards this became a key platform for many socialists then syndicalists and trade unionists chimed in supported by various left intellectuals endless variations were developed upon the basic theme until taken together the socialist tradition of workers democracy was one of the driving forces of political developments in the nineteenth and twentieth century this is the view of network member markus pausch a lecturer in political science and sociology based in austria in his recent paper workplace democracy from a democratic ideal to a managerial tool and back 2014 then something kind of weird happened as pausch describes it in the 1990s the idea was co opted by organizational development and management studies and underwent a change workplace democracy then mostly operationalized as limited participation became a managerial tool that should help to increase employees motivation and efficiency and thereby contribute to entrepreneurial success more like share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading november 17 2016 all those in favour posted by newunionism under alt management new unionism organizing workplace democracy 8 comments members of this network have been arguing that the union movement needs to become more involved in organizing for workplace democracy study after study survey after survey have shown that workers in post industrial nations want more direct voice and influence in the workplace however by and large their aspirations are represented by a movement whose bargaining agenda has remained the same for decades union organizers will be familiar with the tensions that result from this what do you do when the members main concern seems to be about the boss making stupid decisions or the kpis being out of synch with reality or a culture of nepotism generating widespread depression or a flash new i t system screwing up everybody s workflow how does all this fit into a program of achievable gains few workers will mention the word democracy during such conversations but what they are wanting is to be heard and they do not want to be sub divided or co opted in the process this is clearly a role for unions whether they decide to accept it or not it is also a huge opportunity for recruitment think about all those employees who don t join because they have it in their head that unionism is just about pay and conditions more like share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin like loading november 13 2016 postcapitalism innit posted by newunionism under books economics precariat 1 comment apologies for lateness paul mason s book postcapitalism a guide to our future came out in 2015 however it wasn t until the victory of donald trump that i realised how important it was do yourself a favour grab a copy of this book and get familiar with the mess we re in come to terms with the fact we won t be saved by bernie sanders yet alone hillary clinton that 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