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ECONOMISTS and politicians are referring to this moment as the great recession to come.
As furlough ends, as spending plummets, as markets shrink and redundancies and cuts tsunami across the economy, trade unions will be left to defend our people from poverty and despair — our historic mission which sometimes we have failed to accept. Some theorists also suggest that trade unions will decline in numbers and power during recession.
As workers chase jobs that are disappearing and as those still in work desperately cling onto them, then so it goes that the unions will lose even more power and that the consequences of not making hay while the sun shines will hit us.
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