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The Rise of Trade Unions in Britain
I think a real mistake of this government is kind of using the Kismo as a cover for industrial relations and experience. We've had what I see as kind of schoolboy errors, a sort of you know a cocky tone using words like generous when everybody knows that all our key workers are not getting what they deserve. Workers across the piece have lost out now for years while at the same time seeing profits protected and shareholder divvies going up at three times the rate of pay. It's fair to say that trade unions often look marginalised endlessly weakened by laws making strike action more and more difficult. If you'd asked me four or five years ago what I thought the next political development
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