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Unions in Germany, for example, have engaged with management about how to reposition industry in the face of a more globalised market.
Unions, just like people who want to depress wages etc. are dependent on reasonably equal global conditions. If they get outflanked by much lower wages for workers elsewhere, there's not a lot they can do. They're only going to be effective when a new International backs up their work, and I don't mean the Capitalist (Globalist) International.
Oliver Schick
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Your account is also very one-sided. Unions in Germany, for example, have engaged with management about how to reposition industry in the face of a more globalised market. In the UK the relationship between unions and management was mostly confrontational and antagonistic, reducing the bigger problem (that the world was changing rapidly and that industry needed to adapt) to a highly polarised war over wages. Management (and government) clearly bear blame for this, but so do the unions.