LabourStart headline - Source: Spiegel Online

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Can the German Unions get their mojo back after being management's lapdogs for decades? Will they risk strike given overall European unemployment and the mobility of capital within the Union? And how would the Merkel government respond to a resurgence of union militancy? How this works out might be indicitive of what might be done here.