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I expect we'll be seeing more and more calls for austerity all over western media going forward.
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I mean the EU is pretty straightforward about their members having to do austerity policies the next years. I think Belgium has to cut like 30+ billion euro. Our public systems are already falling apart due to lack of funds. I expect a mass call to privatisation across the entire EU in the coming years. US 2.0.
That's right, Europeans will finally get to enjoy the same kinds of freedoms US workers have been enjoying.
Luckily unions are still a thing
Once upon a time we had unions here too.
For now.
I dunno we must not act helpless. Our unions have over 3 million members. That's over 60% of all working people. They can really organize a lot of people in a short time.
I'm not suggesting acting helpless. But if they can breakup the benefits and gains the unions won in past victories while the unions exist, then it does suggest that either they can break the unions themselves or they can render them so weak that it won't even matter if they exist.
That does mean people need to organize and take action, but the best moment to do that for non-revolutionary unions is probably before the gains are lost.
Otherwise, European unions can end up in a similar situation to unions in the US.
Indeed, people are going to be rediscovering the reasons workers need collective bargaining in a hurry.
How much more you reckon before we finally accept we need to divest from the yanks?
European countries don't really get to choose. It's a blood pact they signed when they chose to be American proxies against the barbaric asiatics rather seeking peaceful coexistence and redevlopment after WW2.