On 15/02/2018 23:38, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 19:08:07 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
pamela wrote:
Quite. And having effectively curtailed unions by abolishing the
industries they were once strong in, we have ended up with a
country that needs to import so much manufactured goods. And has
the real value of take home pay falling. Just what a good Tory
wanted.

British trade unions took their role of representing the labour
force too far and tried to be agents of social change. Instead of
teaming up with Trotskyists devoted to class struggle, British
unions should have taken a leaf out of the Germans' book and worked
co-operatively with owners and managers to improve industrial
efficiency for mutual benefit.

Tee-Hee. German industry actively seeked the cooperation of their unions.

Nothing funny about it. It results in stability and everybody benefits

I was laughing at pamela's right wing 'unions are to blame for everything'
attitude. Of course cooperation between management and unions is best -
and it happened in several UK industries too. But not the sort of thing
the meja would cover as it wasn't news.


Shame it didn't happen in the big industries though.