If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power

Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by pjc50 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:37AM (#17246518)

The population has increased from 59m to 66m in this period (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/population), an increase of 11% which is hardly overwhelming.

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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by fortythirteen on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:41AM (#17246556)

Are most of those 7m moving to Brockenhurst? No, they're piling into London, and new domiciles aren't keeping up, so prices are skyrocketing and pushing up the "national average".

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Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power by pjc50 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @08:54AM (#17246666)

London is something of a special case: https://londonist.com/2016/04/london-migration

I'd argue that the over-centralisation of the UK economy is a big part of the problem there; there should be as much investment in public transport in Manchester and Birmingham as there is in London.

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