Last week the World Economic Forum's annual meeting took place in Davos, Switzerland and the global union leaders were there to tackle the issue of growing inequality.

If you take a look at the International Trade Union Confederation's poll last year, governments and businesses should be worried. 82 per cent of people say that their income has been stagnating or falling against the cost of living and 68 per cent say that the government has been doing a bad job in fighting unemployment.  Only one in two believe that the next generation will have decent jobs.

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