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Originally Posted by papa smurf
the thing is some people can't get past the miners strikes and think unions are only out to cause trouble ,they don't consider the wealth of things the union are involved in to make our working lives better [which for some will be up to 70 years old before they retire] ,so it might as well be as good in the workers favour as it can be you have a long working life .
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There's no doubt they do a lot of good in the workplace, but the problem is, instead of running like a sort of workplace insurance scheme, with services available to members in return for a fee, they have actively positioned themselves as political organisations. The vast majority of trade unions continue to be affiliated to the Labour Party. For that reason I could never join one - even if I were to opt out the political levy, I would not want the fact of my membership to lend legitimacy to any of the industrial dinosaurs that lead the movement.