Reply #309: You're probably right.

[gorfle]

If you think you can make a comparison between the Cuban situation, and the US situation, we have nothing more to talk about.

Unless you would like to talk about specifics about what is wrong with my economic theory that enables unions to be effective, you are right, there is nothing more to talk about.



Labour history in the US does not apply to Caribbean nations.

Why not?

If you are unwilling to recognize that these countries are incredibly different from the US, in structure, history, etc, there is nothing I can say.

I'm sure they are different in structure, history, etc. I'm also sure that the basic concept of work, pay, and compensation ain't all that different, since it's been going on since the beginning of time. Likewise the all of the problems and power struggles between employers and employees.

Unions do not fix governments.

I did not claim otherwise.

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Unions can, however, effect great change in governments. See US Labor law after the rise of Unions.

The workers of cuba do reap the benefits of tourism without unions,

My post was in response to the assertion by another poster that before Castro the workers were being taken advantage of. A solution would have been to organize the workforce, ala Unions.

my post about embargoes is responding to your theory that US tourism would somehow increase their standard of living.

Increased US tourism could only help their standard of living - provided of course there are means to make sure that some of the increased income makes it to the common man, rather than being concentrated in the hands of some entity.

Lifting the embargo, not a handful of US tourists, would change these things.

No doubt lifting the embargo would help, and should be done. I never claimed otherwise.