Tournament: Florida Blue Key | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge:
Strikes are key to broad unionization and solve inequality
Bahn 19 ~Kate Bahn is the director of labor market policy and interim chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her areas of research include gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market, care work, and monopsonistic labor markets. Previously, she was an economist at the Center for American Progress. Bahn also formerly served as the executive vice president and secretary for the International Association for Feminist Economics. Bahn received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A. from Hampshire College. "The once and future role of strikes in ensuring U.S. worker power." https://equitablegrowth.org/the-once-and-future-role-of-strikes-in-ensuring-u-s-worker-power/~~
In addition to Hertel-Fernandez's work showing broad support for unions generally and increasing
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first gained their legal stature in the U.S. labor market.
The productivity costs are offset by inequality and democratic decline – both turn econ and outweigh the link
Doucouliagos 19 ~Chris Doucouliagos Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Deakin Business School and Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. "Unions do hurt profits, but not productivity, and they remain a bulwark against a widening wealth gap." https://theconversation.com/unions-do-hurt-profits-but-not-productivity-and-they-remain-a-bulwark-against-a-widening-wealth-gap-107139~~
Some advocates of laissez-faire capitalism argue that trade unions are bad for productivity
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drives the rich to oppose democratic reforms that might lead to wealth redistribution.
Mathew Maavak 21, Author at Atlas Institute for International Affairs, external researcher (PLATBIDAFO) at the Kazimieras Simonavicius University in Vilnius, Lithuania, "Horizon 2030: Will Emerging Risks Unravel Our Global Systems?," Salus Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 2021, pp 2-17
But what exactly is a global system? Our planet itself is an autonomous and
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in the Middle East. Soleimani was simply a cog who got replaced.
Ensuring the right to strike solves democracy and inequality
Kiai 17 ~Mr. Maina Kiai, Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, took up his functions as the first Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in May 2011. He is appointed in his personal capacity as an independent expert by the UN Human Rights Council. "UN rights expert: "Fundamental right to strike must be preserved"." https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=21328andLangID=E~~
The right to strike is also an intrinsic corollary of the fundamental right of freedom
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and respected across the globe and in all arenas", the expert concluded.