
Trade unions need new strategies
With employers on a decades-long offensive against labour, the balance of power which once secured social dialogue has been transformed.
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Asbjørn Wahl is a trade union adviser, political writer and activist with a long career in the trade union movement at national and international levels. Until recently he was president of the Urban Transport Committee of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) and leader of the ITF working group on climate change.

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