On 08/06/2015 15:34, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Watts wrote:
On 08/06/15 13:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Strange the way the Tories want a clear majority of all when it comes
to strike action. But not for parliamentiary elections.

Isn't it...

Of course it was Thatcher who initiated the majority of the trades union
reforms. Things like postal ballots and so on.

In the union I was in, it made not a scrap of difference to the outcome of
any ballot. The results were always as predicted.

So why did the unions fight so hard to keep a system that invited
intimidation?


Which just showed the likes of Thatcher and her advisors were totally out
of touch with the real world of trades unions. In other words they
believed what they read in the gutter press, rather than doing their own
research.


My father suffered intimidation by union "reps" over strike ballots.

The real world still has union "reps" intimidating people, even with so
called secret postal votes.

If you think there wasn't intimidation then you must have been one of
the ones doing it.