Thread · 4 tweets · 4 Oct 2022

I'm likely being thick but I'm not sure that I understand your disagreement well. This isn't so much about other sectoral reforms that could be obtained as it is about the scope of collective bargaining. Maybe a comparison with worker bargaining would help:

The JCPA (if I understand it correctly) is a bit like restricting unions to negotiate ONLY on pay but not on other important aspects like safety, life/work balance, etc. This could lead to jobs that are well paid but eg. for some reason massively overindex towards men.

Some years later, if you try to bring in reform that could help balance out gender representation, the field is now 1) well paid and 2) dominated by men who will more likely than not oppose reform. Had collective bargaining been broad from the start, that wouldn't happen.

I guess what I'm saying might boil down to "hysteresis matters!!!" 😂 I think that publisher would do better, and society would be served better, with a mandate for collective bargaining that must include structural conditions of labour/production and not just pay.