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But the decree offers no more than incentives to local authorities to privatise services and limited plans to open up Italy's closed-shop trade guilds, which help perpetuate the country's system of fixed prices and nepotism.

Berlusconi fights for political life after new austerity measures spark wave of anger 2011

And of all unmitigated immoral gouges, your destruction of the closed-shop principle was the limit.

THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010

Much of the rage was directed at the potential dismantling of the closed-shop system, which would undermine traditional labor protections and licensing regulations in trades like truck driving.

Michelle Chen: Cracks in the American Way, as Labor Stands Strong in Europe Michelle Chen 2010

Much of the rage was directed at the potential dismantling of the closed-shop system, which would undermine traditional labor protections and licensing regulations in trades like truck driving.

Michelle Chen: Cracks in the American Way, as Labor Stands Strong in Europe Michelle Chen 2010

Much of the rage was directed at the potential dismantling of the closed-shop system, which would undermine traditional labor protections and licensing regulations in trades like truck driving.

Michelle Chen: Cracks in the American Way, as Labor Stands Strong in Europe Michelle Chen 2010

(And this is coming from someone who was briefly a member of the Teamsters a result of a closed-shop summer job that I took.)

Matthew Yglesias » McConnell’s Middle Class 2009

"And as details of these closed-shop professions emerge, public support will grow."

Greece's Cosseted Classes Fight Red Tape Reform Alkman Granitsas 2011

We also want to see the reform of committees that set pay, with a worker representative elected by the staff to inject a little common-sense thinking into the closed-shop mentality.

We can't afford the costs of bosses' crazy unearned pay | Deborah Hargreaves 2011

They see the opportunity for a closed-shop power-grab of the kind professionals love: a gatekeeping role.

Your Genes in an Envelope? More, Please Matt Ridley 2011

Much of the rage was directed at the potential dismantling of the closed-shop system, which would undermine traditional labor protections and licensing regulations in trades like truck driving.

Michelle Chen: Cracks in the American Way, as Labor Stands Strong in Europe Michelle Chen 2010