On 19/02/2018 00:35, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
pamela wrote:
Organised labour unions do have a role but not in militancy or
overprotectionism.

It is a unions job to do the very best for its members. There are plenty
who want worse conditions and pay for everyone. Including you, it would
seem. Except yourself, obviously.

Well, Pamela saw no issue with a family living on a national minimum wage.

The trouble with politicised unions is they
want to run the country even though they haven't been elected.

Of course they are going to be political. When governments interfere with
the bargaining between employer and employee.

And when they get too powerful, political forces tend to put them back
to where they should be. Thatcher, for instance, got that mandate.

Unions also have a habit of promoting backward practices and shunning
new technology.