FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Four - The fight for a minimum wage
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Is This Really a Good Idea?
There were also problems about the rate set as well, whether it was going to be 50 % of male medium earnings or two thirds. And my memory of the 97 election, margaret, which i always involved in up when i was working for gordon, is that we didn't say what the rate was going to beingwe. We were very, very cautious about it, weren't we? Which i think hess is a sign of how controversial the wholeWhen we were trying to argue for the concept, the principle, yes, because that principle was accepted. It wasn't the sort of, you know, wher, we accept the principle, but what rate should it be?
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