<story><title>U.S. employment conditions compare poorly to the rest of the developed world</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/05/is-it-great-to-be-a-worker-in-the-us-not-compared-with-the-rest-of-the-developed-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>virmundi</author><text>What I don&amp;#x27;t understand, and you may say that it&amp;#x27;s the intrenched powers keeping the status quo, is why the US picks such poor implementations of certain ideas.&lt;p&gt;The article mentions low collective bargaining. Our model, as an American, is pretty much one union per vertical. There is the Teamsters. There are no unions that compete with the Teamsters. I believe that Germany has unions that fight each other for contracts and membership. At the same time our model is one filled with corruption. (Though I&amp;#x27;ve never heard many complain about IBREW corruption.) Our auto union would rather see the company disappear than reduce wages, or have some of their members dismissed. All the while it&amp;#x27;s common to hear stories of the Auto Workers Union defending drunk forklift drivers making north of 90k a year.&lt;p&gt;If it is just institutional power, why do we defend or allow this? I was watching Killer Mike on Colbert just now. He complained about the plight of blacks in poor communities. It seems like they are a microcosm of the general problems facing this country. He talked about how the governments kept people down. When he mentioned the communities affected (an abridged list I&amp;#x27;m sure), they all had democratically elected officials by that community. The party hadn&amp;#x27;t changed in 60 years. Why do they, and the US in general, allow these failures to continue? Tribalism?</text></comment>
<story><title>U.S. employment conditions compare poorly to the rest of the developed world</title><url>https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/05/is-it-great-to-be-a-worker-in-the-us-not-compared-with-the-rest-of-the-developed-world/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>snarfy</author><text>&amp;gt; The United States and Mexico are the only countries in the entire study that don’t require any advance notice for individual firings.&lt;p&gt;This is why I never feel bad for quitting a job without giving the expected two week notice.  They don&amp;#x27;t give you any notice when they fire you.</text></comment>