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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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The claim that Trade Unions damaged our economy is wrong, they were a side effect of a disease, the reason our economy fell, was due to high energy prices, underinvestment, low quality standards, bad management, bad government policy, the industrial recovery of Japan and Mainland Europe and the decline of Britains empire and a decline of it power
As for the USA, are you seriously suggesting that unions have a power left, it is even worse there, nearly all retail companies (most of all Wal-Mart) are union-free, also American Car companies are undermined by union free Japanese Car plants, lastly if there was strong unions, why are there a lot of Occupy Movements there?
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Originally Posted by Sirius
I have just looked and you have bumped loads of threads today and spammed them, Shocking absolutely Shocking
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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  .
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. |
Did you have member of your family that worked as miners?