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Growth Gets the First Chair and Workers Are Offered a View
· New York time
Jersey's economic development minister told the BBC that workers' rights may have to take “second place” to economic growth. The conditional comment states a proposed priority, not an announced removal of a particular protection. It presents the two aims as potentially competing when policy choices are made. Growth gets the seat nearest the microphone; workers' rights are told that second place still comes with a chair. The practical question is what happens when the two guests ask for different decisions.
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