Brendan Barber, the head of the Trades Union Congress, takes a rather different view.
She is set to replace Brendan Barber, who retires at the end of this year.
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Brendan Barber, TUC general secretary, said the changes to the licensing regime would reduce protection for workers.
The union's general secretary Brendan Barber said employers should discuss the issue with workers "to avoid any tensions".
However the TUC's general secretary, Brendan Barber, said the test was designed purely to kick people off benefits, "whatever the cost".
This is what most pleases Brendan Barber, who says it is vital the Labour narrative goes beyond deficit reduction and cuts.
As the TUC conference opens in Liverpool, the organisation's General Secretary, Brendan Barber, warned against any public sector spending cuts .
The TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, welcomed the change to paternity leave.
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Earlier, TUC general secretary Brendan Barber used his speech to say Labour's second term had seen its share of disappointments, including the Iraq war.
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"An over-reliance on the housing bubble and personal debt exaggerated income growth in the run-up to the recession, " said TUC general secretary Brendan Barber.
An indication of that declining muscle were the numbers in the hall when the outgoing TUC General Secretary, Brendan Barber, gave his farewell address to members.
But General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress Brendan Barber accused Mr Cameron of pursuing a "naked right-wing agenda" that would take the country back to the most divisive years of the 1980s.
For the time being she is barely known outside the union movement, but the honeymoon will surely end by the time she takes over from the TUC's current general secretary Brendan Barber next year - and as austerity bites harder.
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