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Basically every country in Europe will give you longer vacations, standard health care, shorter working hours, ...

In some countries you might even get worker's rights like workers councils, unions on the board, ... If you work for example for Volkswagen, every factory in the world will have strong unions, only the US factory won't.

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Interesting note - switzerland has workers councils too.

What I recall is that the US used to have strong unions too - although my view of that may be skewed by TV and such.

Nowadays though people can get fired if they join a union, which is why shit companies like McD's and Wal-mart get to continue to exploit their employees. I mean "associates".

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