Would you be a scab?

[new mother]

Personally, I belive most strikes and union organised action a total waste of time. There was a period in history when Trades Unions were able to achieve significant improvements in conditions and pay for their members using solidarity and the option of strikes as negotiation tactics.

Marmora Man - quite right.

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Both tubedrivers I know own their own homes, and are pretty middleclass in their aspirations and ideals, if not their accents,they are certainly not fighting any class war they're not that keen on Bob Crowe...but they are both West Ham ;-)

DC it's not the 1900s or even the 1920s...the General Strike didn't even hold then when people were REALLY poor.

Unions speak in tones from those period whilst largely acting in self interest - maybe that's fair enough but to keep playing on their justified origins BUT acting like they are fighting some class war when most of their members are pretty comfortable white collar public sector workers or pretty well paid 'trad' workers is not convincing the rest of us very much.... comrades.