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I think we can all agree that unions were needed early in the industrial development of America to equalize the power between management and labor. What unions are now obsolete considering the various laws in place to protect employees?

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In today's world of individual employment contracts, performance-related pay schemes, Human Resource and Total Quality Management and all the other ingredients of the so-called 'new' workplace, trade unions are often regarded as anachronistic obstacles preventing success of the market economy.

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