Economy 2030 Power plays The shifting balance of employer and worker power in the UK labour market 7 July 2022 by Ufuk Altunbuken and Pawel Bukowski and Stephen Machin and Hannah Slaughter This briefing note, part of the Economy 2030 Inquiry, looks at shifts in the balance of worker and employer power in recent decades. It assesses the implications of these shifts for both the level and distribution of wages and highlights worker power as an important part of the UK’s economic strategy in the decade ahead. READ MORE