Elizabeth H. Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO 2

A forward-looking US perspective, from the first woman to reach the No 2 slot in the 11.5m, 57 union AFL-CIO, the national confederation of trade unions, on the challenges facing unions, in a world where, post-Enron and post-Lehman, Main Street cannot rely on Wall Street to even behave rationally, much less look after Main Street, if unchallenged or totally unregulated, but where workers also must grasp that their own future depends on profitable business.
If a well-ordered state needs real *separation of powers*, with strong, principled but separate Judicial, Legislative and Executive roles, so also does a well-ordered economy need strong, coherent but separate Entrepeneurial, Worker and Regulatory forces.