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Re:The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes a... by minthd on Sunday March 22, 2015 @08:27PM (#9248831)
There are unions in the nordic countries. They generally work quite well and don't hurt those countries competitiveness - those nations are quite competitive.

I believe Germany is also highly unionized.

So maybe we should learn from them ?

And BTW in all those countries one thing about those unions is that they are highly responsible - they understand the market realities and understand that people need to justify salries or else there would be layoffs.

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Re:The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes a... by pgeorgi on Monday March 23, 2015 @03:40AM (#9249842)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/volkswagen... describes the tension of having a company with German-style union-values operate in the US.
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Re:The decline in unionization has fed the rise in incomes a... by bnolsen on Monday March 23, 2015 @12:52AM (#9249542)
no. hard working europeans leave europe to escape the system where they have little hope of bettering themselves in the european system. lots of them showed up in china working as part of outsource or manufacturing firms. talked to several myself.
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