The Con-Lib coalition’s ambition for a “big society” based on a reduction of central “big government” and support instead for local “people power” includes community organisers, social volunteers and even employee-owned co-operatives in the public sector – but not, it seems, trade unionists. Indeed, both the government parties have a deeply entrenched hostility towards the unions.
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