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THE European Union’s corporate leaders havn’t just reserved their deregulating, anti-trade union, anti-workers’ rights agenda for their own member states on home turf.
They have been keen to extend this policy on the already fertile ground of the southern states of the US.
They’ve exploited some of the weakest labour laws and strongest pro-business environments in the world.
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