Current Affairs Trade unions: government should spend more to boost economy
With the soaring deficit of the state budget and uncertain forecasts about the country’s economic output in 2010, the Czech government is working on a strategy to improve the state of public finances by severe cuts in spending. But the Czech Republic’s trade unions believe the government should do the exact opposite – stimulate the economy with more public spending. Radio Prague spoke to Vít Samek, the vice-chair of the country’s biggest labour union central, the ČMKOS, and asked him about the unions’ view of what should be done.
Vít Samek
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