According to the Progressive Policy Think Tank IPPR, achieving better wages and working conditions as part of a new growth model will require a renaissance of collective bargaining and a growth in trade union membership. The decline of the union movement has contributed to a growing imbalance of power in the economy, and a consequent decline in the share of national income going to labour and an increase in inequality. In the report Power to the people, the IPPR states, based on key propositions, that stronger unions can deliver economic justice.
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