So, not only is manufacturing not down as in usual cycles, it is up quite handsomely for many products, except of course for automobiles, which are not just in a recession but facing a depression.

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It may not last almost nothing does, for better or worse but this is certainly not business as usual by the standards of many another time.

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Many of these firms would love wage bargaining to be done at company level, not as is usual in nationwide bargaining with one of the giant trade unions.

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