On 20/07/15 11:08, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In general, things only ever get near a vote for industrial action when
negotiations have failed.

Wrong.

And the workforce are well aware of this. I've
personally never seen any vote for industrial action where the result
wasn't an overwhelming majority in favour.

Wrong.

Can't really see any point in
going to the vote if you don't already know there is a big majority in
favour of it.

More fool you.

The more I read on here, the more I realise very few have much in the way
of actual experience in how unions work.


Well, exactly.


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