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Since labour came to power in 1997 the Unions have kept a somewhat low profile. The Trade Unions were the most dangerous and damaging element of British society in the seventies. Their actions in striking for workers rights and higher pay often led to further unemployment as the nation became uncompetitive and unreliable due to the lightening strikes and violent pickets.
I thought that had changed but with the British Airways/Gate Gourmet farago we have seen a return to the nad old days many of us thought would never happen and that legislation prevented.
I note from this article that there is confirmation that the industrial action was illegal, both at gate Gourmet and at BA and that frankly the whole lot of them could be sacked. However in a period of high employment, such as we have now, where are the new employees going to come from?
I saw an amusing letter in the Daily Telegraph yesterday. It was a short and open letter asking the BA workers to go back to work because the Government has a number of deportations of "hate clerics" to make!!
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No that's not the moral. The moral is that the days of workers going out on strike when it is not their jobs being attacked (secondary picketing) should have ended.
The fact is we are no longer an industrial based country, the predominance of work being service based. Offering "service" is NOT going out on strike when your "brother" in the Union has a row with their separate employer.
All it leads to is people taking their service requirements elsewhere and the employees facing mass redundancy when no one bothers to fly BA because of their unreliability!!
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