There’s an old marxist saying: “if workers owned the means of production, automation would be a holiday, not a layoff”. If you’re proposing turning over the shipyard profits to the workers, that’s a policy the unions will absolutely get behind. It’s also something the shipyard owners will fight tooth and nail to prevent, they’re the ones you’ll need to buy off, and buying the shipyards will be expensive.
At the end of the day I don’t think enough people share your sentiments to make any policy of this scale (even the 30 years of payments you specify elsewhere) politically viable. And as I said in another thread: if your solutions aren’t viable in the current political environment, they’re just wishful thinking, and the workers on strike want solutions that will work today.
Slight nitpick: I think you mean ports, not shipyards. Shipyards are where ships get constructed and repaired. Ports are where cargo is loaded and offloaded.
There’s an old marxist saying: “if workers owned the means of production, automation would be a holiday, not a layoff”. If you’re proposing turning over the shipyard profits to the workers, that’s a policy the unions will absolutely get behind. It’s also something the shipyard owners will fight tooth and nail to prevent, they’re the ones you’ll need to buy off, and buying the shipyards will be expensive.
At the end of the day I don’t think enough people share your sentiments to make any policy of this scale (even the 30 years of payments you specify elsewhere) politically viable. And as I said in another thread: if your solutions aren’t viable in the current political environment, they’re just wishful thinking, and the workers on strike want solutions that will work today.