
Rail Strike! w/ Eddie Dempsey
A World to Win with Grace Blakeley
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Do You Think the Government Is Taking a Hard Line?
Big businesses have more than enough profits to be able to grant workers wage increases in line with inflation. But the government seems to be directly standing in the way of allowing workers to have that pay increase. It's baseiny, a kind of class war from above - but yet we've also seen this massive level of solidarity from the grass roots which the government clearly didn't expect. So i think they've taken a hard line for two reasons. First of all, i think they are protecting the profits of a whole class of people who sit on our economy effectively and suk money out of i an if you look at government policy more broadly, we subsidize profits in a lot of sectors through
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