On 06/05/2017 16:24, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Roger Hayter
wrote:

Vir Campestris wrote:

On 02/05/2017 19:18, critcher wrote:
like we don't have strikes now !!!

You don't remember the 1970s do you.

Andy
The 1970s entailed the Labour Party making the first moves at
globalisation and lowering real wages. And then blaming the Trade Union
movement for trying to resist this. Rather successfully, it seems, but
that does not make it the unions' fault.

The unions have always been keen on trying to have employers retain
jobs that don't exist any more.

It is the job of a union to protect member's jobs. Much as the Mail etc
thinks they should be doing things 'for the benefit of the country'. Ie,
those in charge.


Someone needs to explain to them that protecting their members jobs
doesn't work when you drive the company to bankruptcy.
They should have worked out by now that they can't try to overthrow the
government and protect jobs like Scargill thought he could.