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2012考研英语阅读真题：考研英语（一）第4
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If the trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa were alive today, he would probably represent civil servant.
When Hoffa’s Teamsters were in their prime in 1960, only one in ten American government workers belonged to a union; now 36% do.
In 2009 the number of unionists in America’s public sector passed that of their fellow members in the private sector.
In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.
There are three reasons for the public-sector
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unions’ thriving.
First, they can shut things down without suffering much in the way of consequences.
Second, they are mostly bright and well-educated.
A quarter of America’s public-sector workers have a university degree.
Third, they now dominate left-of-centre politics.
Some of their ties go back a long way.
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Britain’s Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.
Its current leader, Ed Miliband, owes his position to votes from public-sector unions.
At the state level their influence can be even more fearsome.
Mark Baldassare of the Public Policy Institute of California points out that much of the state’s budget is patrolled by unions.
The teachers’ unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.
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In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.
But the real gains come in benefits and work practices.
Politicians have repeatedly “backloaded” public-sector pay deals,
keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.
Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education,
where charter schools, academies and merit
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2012考研英语阅读真题：考研英语(一)第4篇-毙考题
