Workers' prosperity has always come through fighting for rights, never from thinking hard about them.James Hoffa General president International Brotherhood of Teamsters Washington, DCThe immigration debate* SIR – Once again you described Arizona's new immigration law as "strict" ("Birds on patrol", June 5th).
Because unions fight for workers' prosperity and survival.
Together with higher exports, this would lead to more jobs, higher pay for workers and prosperity being taken "to every corner of the country".
Lavrenti Beria, the Soviet secret police chief, established a uranium-processing plant near the city in the 1940's, and it brought skilled workers and prosperity.
Many Irish stonecutters who fled the famine of their homeland for Tuckahoe and, later, Italian workers enjoyed prosperity working in the quarries.
Three recent articles on the Op-Ed page discuss our economic problems and the sufferings of our unemployed workers ("Defining Prosperity Down," by Paul Krugman, column, Aug. 2; "A Sin and a Shame," by Bob Herbert, column, July 31; "Welcome to the Recovery," by Timothy Geithner, Op-Ed, Aug. 3).
Workers make wealth; prosperity is productivity.
In order to create broad-based prosperity, workers need the skills to participate in the brave new world implied by a digital economy.
To encourage firms to share some of these profits with their workers, and thereby to let workers share in rising prosperity, the report suggests expanding tax breaks for profit-sharing schemes and employee share-ownership plans.
Companies everywhere are thriving and sharing this prosperity with workers clamoring for raises.
