Work & social protection

Do trade unions have too much power?

The test question and the possible answers

Trade unions have too much power.

What's at stake: The disagreement is about the role of unions: an essential counterweight to employers, or a brake on reform.

The left's argument

Unions won most of our social rights. Without them, employers would call the shots.

The right's argument

Some unions block reforms and defend their members more than the unemployed.

And you, where do you stand?

Answer 30 situations like this one and find out where you stand, topic by topic.

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