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Trade unions: everything you wanted to know

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The London Dock Strike

Around the same time, we have the london dock strike as well. Could you talk a little bit about that? Yes, sure. So where the brind may dispute really is quite an interesting symbolic victory, although not a huge one, affecting ods of people. More importantly than that, it sould have opened the way, really, for non skilled workers, or less skilled workers, to start creating unions and having some real voice through those unions. It massively expanded it. Unions were no longer about protecting a small sectional interest of engineers or whatever. It was about organizing the workers as a whole. And that's a huge shull of change in hell.

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