Word: laboral
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...likely to put them back to work than Labor was. Indeed, surveys taken shortly before the election indicated that an astonishing one out of three unemployed Britons planned to vote Tory. Many workers greatly appreciated her feat in bringing the inflation rate down from a high of 22% in 1980 to the current 4%. In addition, Britain's generous array of unemployment benefits, which Thatcher has left largely intact, has blunted the anger of many without jobs...
...class; according to polls taken before the election, a majority of both groups planned to vote for her. Only unskilled workers have remained safely in the Labor camp, and theirs is a dwindling breed. Next year, for the first time, blue-collar workers will be outnumbered by white-collar workers in the labor force. Meanwhile, surveys show that voters today are growing less and less likely to vote by class, simply along the lines of bowler hat vs. cloth cap. As if that were not advantage enough for Thatcher, Britain's population is shifting from the big cities that have...
...signs, Thatcher's second term will be much like the first. "She's shown the color of her money in the first four years," says a senior aide. "She'll follow the same line with even greater vigor." Faced with a divided Labor Party and its disastrous manifesto, the Tories did not feel a need to spell out any new policies in detail. Once again...
Thus Thatcher will press more re forms on the labor unions, including legis lation that would require union leaders to stand for re-election every five years and allow union members to opt out of auto matically paying dues to the Labor Party Declining industries such as steel, coal and shipbuilding will be urged to up productivity and modernize facilities. Besides selling more state-owned companies, she will allow some private utilities to compete with public ones. And in her belief that "property induces responsibility in society," Thatcher plans to permit more tenants to buy their government-built homes. hatcher...
Meanwhile, her opponents will be regrouping. It is too early to write an obituary for Labor, but the party's ultimate health depends on the direction it takes in the next few months. If last week's defeat causes defiant Laborites to move farther to the left, the party's fortunes will continue to dwindle. But if Labor steers back to a more moderate course, then at least it stands a chance of reversing the decline...