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Um... A quick Google reveals: Union membership as percent of workforce in: Sweden: 78.0% (2003) United States: 12.0% (2006) I don't think you have proper appr
by lutorm 16y ago
Um... A quick Google reveals:
Union membership as percent of workforce in:
Sweden: 78.0% (2003)
United States: 12.0% (2006)
I don't think you have proper appreciation of the historical power of the unions in Swedish politics. In comparison, the U.S. unions are a fringe.
- eru 16y agoI was not talking about the membership numbers. The Economist recently ran some quotes contrasting a Swedish union boss with nominally centre-right Sarkozy. Anyway, just retract my claim about Sweden. I don't know nearly enough about it. But I know that in Germany unions are in general quite business friendly, and not nearly as inflexible and insisting on entitlement as, say, the UAW was portrayed in what I read.