Just take EDF for example. A perfect example of unions , people power, and them making the government listen. NOT the other way around. As i said, if you were raised in the usa, you have no clue about socialism unless you live in it. Why for example is the EU constantly expanding and already a larger economy than the usa ? Where to to join the EU , you cannot have the death penalty and eveyone must have universal health care. It is the usa that has no health system and murders people as a penalty