Take a few minutes to read the article.
Plenty of bad bosses for many a year in the haulage industry.
Full circle then, unions came about because of bad bosses.
DrivingMissDaisy:
Take a few minutes to read the article.
That is a very scary article, and very possibly correct in forecasting the way things are going in this country… 
The logical conclusion is that you either have strong unions with the freedom to take action as and when required to keep terms and conditions acceptable and incomes and therefore spending power in the economy high.Or throw the labour market open to market forces,in an environment of a slashed social security system and not enough income to pay for private income protection,in which it becomes a race to the bottom based on the lowest common denominator.Under the latter idea the removal of the minimum wage is just the start.It would also eventually logically result in removal of the idea of job security at all and in which workers are hired or fired on a spot market basis.
IE you have to bid for your job at the gates when you start every shift never knowing wether you’ve got a job between the finish of the last shift and the next because you’ll be undercut on pay and conditions by someone who’s more desperate for some money than you are.Which is a reasonable discription of the labour market of the early 20th Century at least and it’s also why the unions were as strong as they were by 1970.
The unbelievable bit is how the CBI and it’s cronies in successive Tory and so called Labour governments have managed to erode the unions’ effectiveness since that time by making the working classes think that such erosion is in their interests.Let alone how the country’s industrialists and leaders can think that such a situation is in the long term interests of the country’s economy in terms of economic growth,and it’s defence budget.Especially when you remember that the issues of the employers having access to an easily accessible open market in cheap immigrant labour or the export of British jobs to cheap labour countries like China,didn’t apply in the 1920’s/30’s. 
