URTU opinions?

Rjan:
How does that differ from senior management? Do you think they spent most of their day doing something useful, rather than just looking for ways to attack the workforce - either their own, or another firm’s workforce which they seek to undercut? Do you think they get laid off regularly?

The same senior management which had/have the government working for their interests.
The same government which uses inflation as a weapon to wipe out gains in income.
Which then applies a below inflation wage control regime as part of that.
Which shouts about competitiveness and productivety which actually just means undercutting wages and wanting more work done for the same wage.
If a union isn’t getting into conflict with the government sometimes if not often then it isn’t doing its job.
Instead of which the government has convinced the working class that the government is working for their interests and it’s militant to argue.
I was actually working in an affected industry and supported the justified militant actions against the government in the 1970’s.
Also with the sympathy of our own management.
Wage controls being imposed to fix oil price led inflation in an energy self sufficient economy.They couldn’t make it up.
Followed by the working class then turning against itself by allowing the Thatcher regime to finish the job that Callaghan started.
To the point where unions eventually became part of the problem not the solution.
Based on the oxymoron contained in Robroy’s idea of a non militant union.
The fact is solidarity means nothing without militancy being there to back it.The rest is history.