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==Trade unionism== {{main|Awkward squad (trade unionists)}} The tag of 'awkward squad' has been applied to a group of left-wing [[trade union]]ists in the [[United Kingdom]], marked out by their opposition to the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]'s economic policies. The group includes [[Bob Crow]], [[Mark Serwotka]], and [[Tony Woodley, Baron Woodley|Tony Woodley]]. In a Parliamentary sense, however, it can also apply to the left-wing of the Labour Party, which perennially occupies a bench of the House of Commons which allows its members to heckle and unnerve the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] regularly.
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