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Can the unions win? w/ Polly Smythe

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Is This Legislation Going to Drag?

I wonder whether employers will sort of take this as the kind of final act of a government that's out of control in its approach to industrial relations. And I think that employers probably are reticent to spurn all their goodwill with trade unions by battling it out. It would be a real battle in terms of who was going to go to work because in each workplace, if you let's say you take a school and you say, all right, well, 20% of teachers have to come in - how are you picking those teachers? How do you prove that they're not avoiding work because they don't want to because they voted to take strike action? We've just seen the National Education

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