In all the agonising about how to overcome the hurdles presented by auto-enrolment, hardly anyone mentioned the unions as a potential remedy. This is a mystery, because unions previously played a big role in the creation of the world’s most famous and successful system of auto-enrolment, that of Australian superannuation.

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