The national trade union confederation SGB (Schweizerischer Gewerkschaftsbund) aims to revive solidarity in 2020 after a thirty-year period in which it has weakened. Solidarity has increasingly been sacrificed to competitiveness, said SGB, making it understandable why so many people feel left behind. One union president feared that competition leads to a fight in which only the strongest can win.
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