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15th January 2014, 05:35
http://boffyblog.blogspot.ca/2011/04/enterprise-zones-part-4.html
I would suggest that if EZ's are established, then Labour Local Authorities should be pressed by the local Labour Party and Trades Unions to ensure that where possible the firms established on them are Co-operatives. The Labour Party and Trades Unions should also get stuck into the Co-op, and ensure that some of those large profits, not to mention the £75 billion of assets sitting on the Co-op Bank's Balance Sheet, be used to invest in and develop these new Co-operative enterprises.
In that way, if businesses are to get advantages by setting up on EZ's, they will at least be workers enterprises. If cost savings are to be provided, in lower rates etc. then those saving should go to assist the workers in those enterprises, rather than subsidising the profits of small-scale, cowboy capitalists. In that way the policy can be turned to the advantage of workers, the new worker owned and controlled co-operative enterprises established can act to strengthen the economic position of workers, and can act to provide a model of pay and conditions to be copied by workers elsewhere, rather than the opposite that the Tories intend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Enterprise_Zone
Urban Enterprise Zone policies generally offer tax concession, infrastructure incentives, and reduced regulations to attract investments and private companies into the zones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Economic_Zone
A Special Economic zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that is designed to export goods and provide employment. SEZs are exempt from federal laws regarding taxes, quotas, FDI-bans, labour laws and other restrictive laws in order to make the goods manufactured in the SEZ at a globally competitive price.
Now the blogger's view above from 2011 isn't mine by any stretch, but I wanted to post this view somewhere here because of his very, very peculiar mix of cooperative activity and the thrust of these economic/enterprise zones. Why not go all the way to have coops in these zones exempt from all labour laws, including minimum wages, injured workers' compensation insurance, work day and work week limits, and even household child labour (not the sweatshop type stigmatized in anti-corporate works, but like kids working their butts off on their family farms, but only this time at the coops)? :glare:
I would suggest that if EZ's are established, then Labour Local Authorities should be pressed by the local Labour Party and Trades Unions to ensure that where possible the firms established on them are Co-operatives. The Labour Party and Trades Unions should also get stuck into the Co-op, and ensure that some of those large profits, not to mention the £75 billion of assets sitting on the Co-op Bank's Balance Sheet, be used to invest in and develop these new Co-operative enterprises.
In that way, if businesses are to get advantages by setting up on EZ's, they will at least be workers enterprises. If cost savings are to be provided, in lower rates etc. then those saving should go to assist the workers in those enterprises, rather than subsidising the profits of small-scale, cowboy capitalists. In that way the policy can be turned to the advantage of workers, the new worker owned and controlled co-operative enterprises established can act to strengthen the economic position of workers, and can act to provide a model of pay and conditions to be copied by workers elsewhere, rather than the opposite that the Tories intend.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Enterprise_Zone
Urban Enterprise Zone policies generally offer tax concession, infrastructure incentives, and reduced regulations to attract investments and private companies into the zones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Economic_Zone
A Special Economic zone (SEZ) is a geographical region that is designed to export goods and provide employment. SEZs are exempt from federal laws regarding taxes, quotas, FDI-bans, labour laws and other restrictive laws in order to make the goods manufactured in the SEZ at a globally competitive price.
Now the blogger's view above from 2011 isn't mine by any stretch, but I wanted to post this view somewhere here because of his very, very peculiar mix of cooperative activity and the thrust of these economic/enterprise zones. Why not go all the way to have coops in these zones exempt from all labour laws, including minimum wages, injured workers' compensation insurance, work day and work week limits, and even household child labour (not the sweatshop type stigmatized in anti-corporate works, but like kids working their butts off on their family farms, but only this time at the coops)? :glare: