Sentences with phrase «big union monopoly»

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Perverse economic incentives: Incarceration has become big business, from prison unions protecting lucrative jobs, to companies being given monopolies within the prison system (Until the FCC stepped in, there were instances of charging over $ 1 a minute for calls).

The Thatcher administrations indeed aimed to undermine the institutions on which the political strength of the Labour movement rested (i.e. big - city local authorities, council estates, monopoly nationalised industries, trade unions and local government authorities).

But there's an argument to be made that the apogee of conservative social policy was actually in the 1990s, with tough - on - crime laws, which broke the back of a crack - fueled murder wave; welfare reform, which reined in government dependency; and education reform, which curbed monopoly power of the teachers» unions in our big cities.