hmm, this "middle ground" is quite the reserved proposal. yes, the most advantageous position between Greedy Union Fatcats and you-will-be-murdered-for-unionizing is certainly "no unions at all"! O, MNC overlords, please be so gracious as to bestow Any Job At Any Wage onto our weak and pitiful souls!

no one just wants "a job". the default position of employment under current globalized economic conditions is that of slave labour (how can you think otherwise given the conditions with which you seek to compete?). to achieve a sustainably decent job, you would, of course, need to be able to use leverage to negotiate with capital, which is not possible for the individual unskilled laborer - the local surplus reserve of labour and the draw of inexpensive production elsewhere ensures this.

you need both collectivized leverage and (some form of) trade protectionism/capital controls to ensure domestic sustainability. it is your own noose of free trade and anti-union sentiment that has reduced the position of (manufacturing) labour in america to a lesser position than the least developed, least educated workforces elsewhere.

the washington consensus arose from washington. what a monstrous claim that these dogs are just not hungry enough when taken alongside the decades-long processes that have been undertaken in order to find the most starving. they will fight for the smallest scraps!

let us allow capital to fly away, exploit the periphery for the maximum possible profit, and then cry when the centre is no longer sustainable. yes! more freedom for capital is needed to correct this degrading sequence of events!