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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Caterpillar strike: in the US, it's open season on unions

Caterpillar strike: in the US, it's open season on unions | Michael Paarlberg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk:


What could really drive Caterpillar to demand its workers tighten their belts in a period of unprecedented prosperity? "Greed," might be the moralist response; "capital accumulation" the Marxist one. But a better explanation is even simpler: because they can.

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