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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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The government are always going to try and curtail union action as it's costly.
If you don't want the government to do that, exercise your right to strike, or protest, and then vote when given the opportunity, both nationally and within your union.
( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 10:48, 1 reply, 11 years ago)

( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:02, Reply)

I cannot possibly see how looking out for one another could ever be construed this way.
( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:07, Reply)

But I think governments are always going to be shitting on the unions, and I'm not sure the unions are doing enough to fight back. They live on this idea that they're for the worker , so the worker must love them. Whereas the worker is as open to government propaganda as everyone else, and the only way to fight back is modernise the unions. A poster on the back of a bog door is nothing against a government spin machine
( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:10, Reply)

I worked for a school for a short period and I was very heavily leant on to join the union as the perception was that if I didn't, I was somehow betraying the rest of the staff. Unions seem to be hanging onto a perception of workers still being job-for-life, ill-educated and open to bully boy tactics.
I think perhaps modern workers are more mobile, more open to shifting around jobs and perhaps feel like the unions aren't relevant anymore. There's got to be a reason why turn outs for strike votes etc are pretty low and disengagement is usually the answer.
( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:15, Reply)

It's at least partly the union's responsibility to re-engage their members. They can't just sit back and say "well they need to re-engage with us, until they do we'll just assume they want to do what we want them to do".
( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:20, Reply)

( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:23, Reply)

is when the union goes on strike. That inconveniences people and they don't like it.
Also public sector workers are less than 20% of the workforce. The large majority of the workforce doesn't have the right to strike and it pisses them off to see, say, teachers striking thus making working stiffs take holiday or pay for childcare.
( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:13, Reply)

( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:14, Reply)

I believe voting should be compulsory, but it should include the option 'None of the above'
( , Fri 18 Jul 2014, 11:08, Reply)
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