the entire push against regulations, Department of Labor, unions, worker rights and employer push back is about removing federal regulations that govern employment. The Fair Labor Standards Act has been under attack since Reagan.
The GOP and big business push is to reduce employment to a contingency or contract employee level. Temp agencies have grown tremendously over the years. There are many more temp and contract jobs than there have ever been. The tendency in the employment market has been to reduce hours and cut full time jobs to bare minimum in corporate American.
There most likely fewer full time jobs compared to part time, temp and contract jobs per capita compared to when Reagan was president. One reason the UI rate stay so high is employers are still quietly offshoring more and more jobs and reducing full time jobs to part time jobs.
The employment stats hide the true picture of the situation because UI stats are very limited in their scope. The survey for UI counts a person with 1 hour of work in a week as employed. It does not count people who have given up, and people off benefits. If we counted the rate like the Europeans do our rate would be around 12% to 15%. Plus the UI rate does not account for underemployment. That rate is most likely closer to 50%. Underemployment is pay less than experience or education demands. We have lot of degreed people working low wage jobs or part time jobs or service jobs.
The point of my post is that in the early 1980's there was info out at DOL where corporate American issued white papers about the NEW job market meaning that there would be NO full time jobs in the future. All jobs would be contract or contingency based. The corporations are trying to move the work force into that model.
One symptom of their strategy is convincing workers that they will have multiple careers of as many as 8 or 10 jobs that they must continually train for at their own expense. I am seeing this model progressing just like those white papers predicted in the early 1980's.
That is why the safety net, taxes, Medicare, Social Security, labor laws, unions etc are under attack and being eroded. The MSM and the corporations are trying to move the work force to accept this new model that workers really do not even see.]
It is the "boiling frog" scenario. Moving workers and conning them.
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