On 23/08/15 18:23, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

If the retail sector was unionised, they might get a better deal. Not that
you'd care - talk about 'I'm alright Jack'.

That's the problem. Some of the powerful unions overplay their hand
(NUM, RMT) but not all (ASLEF is fairly balanced).

Then you get the un-unionised retail sector and here's what you get:

Huge staff turnover;

Cheap(er) EU shop staff (cf. my experience in SportsDirect the other day
- went in for 3 things, useless bloke could barely string a sentence
together nor understand me. Came out with one thing because it took so
long, not helped by their Soviet system of taking payment. Won't be
going there again, but I doubt my lack of custom will change their policy).


And waiters definitely need a union - I saw a story the other day that
Cote don't pass ANY of their service charge onto waiting staff.