The irony here is that we’re trying to plug the gap in other countries, to ensure Denmark’s and Sweden’s model doesn’t get outcompeted by “race to the bottom” legislation.
An example of this, is one also used by the Danes and Swedes to argue against this law, is where the ECJ ruled against Swedish Unions picketing a foreign company operating posted workers in Sweden, because we can’t have a Single Market if every national union has a veto on who gets to operate in the country.
But now we are trying to solve the opened gap in the EU way by empowering employees and unions more, and the Swedes/Danes are against this too. We can’t organize an entire continent’s market with vetos, babes.
This is basically the Obama meme with Denmark and Sweden patting themselves on the back. Of course their systems work very well, but they’re most certainly not the only ones where it works well.
Since it works in Sweden and Denmark, then why not leave them alone instead of disrupting their century old model by outside regulations.
Plus the article is not mentioning at all what the Danish unions are most pissed about in the EU minimum wage proposal. That EU court will rule over the independent Danish labor court, and the fear of minimum wage becoming the de facto wage.
It also not mentioning that minimum wage earners are “protected” in Denmark. They do not have to pay for lawyers and taking a dispute to a judicial court, but that unions will do that in the independent labor and foot the bill.
So the “protection” of a guarantied minimum wage is not needed, because the unions and the labor court already provides that.
It’s even funnier when Danish people claim (on reddit) that Denmark is not opposed to minimum wage laws, same people posting imto /r/antiwork comparing US federal laws with Danish laws, and at very least misleading people in their infographs claiming Denmark has minimal wage laws (it doesn’t) while comparing it to whole and criticising US (federal state) while at the same time opposing minimal wage laws in Europe.
As with all other things, the danish collective agreement is more perfect than the Swedish one though. Obviously
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The irony here is that we’re trying to plug the gap in other countries, to ensure Denmark’s and Sweden’s model doesn’t get outcompeted by “race to the bottom” legislation.
An example of this, is one also used by the Danes and Swedes to argue against this law, is where the ECJ ruled against Swedish Unions picketing a foreign company operating posted workers in Sweden, because we can’t have a Single Market if every national union has a veto on who gets to operate in the country.
But now we are trying to solve the opened gap in the EU way by empowering employees and unions more, and the Swedes/Danes are against this too. We can’t organize an entire continent’s market with vetos, babes.
This is basically the Obama meme with Denmark and Sweden patting themselves on the back. Of course their systems work very well, but they’re most certainly not the only ones where it works well.
Since it works in Sweden and Denmark, then why not leave them alone instead of disrupting their century old model by outside regulations.
Plus the article is not mentioning at all what the Danish unions are most pissed about in the EU minimum wage proposal. That EU court will rule over the independent Danish labor court, and the fear of minimum wage becoming the de facto wage.
It also not mentioning that minimum wage earners are “protected” in Denmark. They do not have to pay for lawyers and taking a dispute to a judicial court, but that unions will do that in the independent labor and foot the bill.
So the “protection” of a guarantied minimum wage is not needed, because the unions and the labor court already provides that.
It’s even funnier when Danish people claim (on reddit) that Denmark is not opposed to minimum wage laws, same people posting imto /r/antiwork comparing US federal laws with Danish laws, and at very least misleading people in their infographs claiming Denmark has minimal wage laws (it doesn’t) while comparing it to whole and criticising US (federal state) while at the same time opposing minimal wage laws in Europe.
As with all other things, the danish collective agreement is more perfect than the Swedish one though. Obviously