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Should We “Bring Back the Unions”?
acting-man.com / Roger Barris / October 15, 2015
It is sometimes suggested that one of the cures for wage stagnation and growing inequality is to bring back the unions. Here are some reminders from Europe of exactly what that would mean.
Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the UK’s Labor Party, is committed to nuclear disarmament. He therefore wanted to discuss the renewal of the Trident nuclear submarine program, which carries the ballistic missiles that comprise the UK’s nuclear deterrent, at the recent Labor Party conference.
And which, incidentally, is projected to cost £20 billion. However, he was overruled by the public sector unions that supported his recent election. Their reason? I quote from Len McCluskey, the leader of the largest of these unions:
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Source: http://silveristhenew.com/2015/10/15/should-we-bring-back-the-unions/
