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Originally Posted by Alan Fry
Why do the Tories rich backers want to reduce our standard of living even further, they have massively weakened our unions and reduced wages and pensions in real terms 
What we need is far more workers rights and far less regulation of unions, starting with the scraping of Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 
This also shows how much the Tories care about anyone who is not rich, honestly, I am starting to wish I was a Billionaire/Trillionaire 
And for petes sake, can you end this rubbbish about how bad union influence is, unlike the wealthy who donate to Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and even UKIP, the unions represent 6.5 million working people |
I have just looked and you have bumped loads of threads today and spammed them, Shocking absolutely Shocking
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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan
I am a trade union member. But I can still see that the unions used to have far too much power, and used to bring the economy to it's knees.
We don't want a situation like we had in the 70's, and they still have in USA now. As it is almost like 'Carry On at Your Convenience'. And the unions who were supposed to be protecting the workers, were actually putting the companies out of business, and losing their members their jobs.
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What will shock a lot of people on this forum is that i am now a paid up member of the CWU and intend to stay that way
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I realise now that the CWU are not the same bully boy union that the miners union was and the one i remember for what they did to members of my family back when the strike was at its height.
I agree with a lot of what the CWU are doing and feel i am best placed being a member in this present climate.