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Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights

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Was the Industrial Strife Really a Golden Age?

In the 1970s there was an enormous wave of union activism. But in the end, what did that lead to? It led to a crisis in British industry. And it ultimately, politically, demargret Thatcher. Your view is that the unions created that not the underinvestment and the failures. No, but I'm looking at the end. The industrial strife was the end result of a decade or more decades of not investing in our economy. They exploited all those manufacturing jobs as a deliberate and intentional policy under Thatcher and Tibet.They sent all that work to China and the Far East and an alkyl plane and they make it. Even if you wanted to go back to what

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