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Corporatism asserts a common interest between workers and employers and means the total subordination of the working class to the profit dictates of the company. The bitter experience of the past 15 years shows that there is no such “common interest.”
A strike wave started in June 2022 as workers strove to match wages to prices, especially of food and energy, rising much faster than at any time since the early 1990s. With unemployment low as bosses hired anew for post-lockdown expansion, workers also sought to reverse the decline in real media weekly wages in the period of economic crash and then austerity since 2008. Public service wages had declined particularly, being only 1% higher than private-sector wages (for comparable qualifications, age, etc.) in 2022 where they were 7% higher in 2011.
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The inflation-busting pay rises being demanded by unions are not sustainable
In a national strike ballot over pay, Royal Mail members voted by a 97.6% majority to take action