wannabeeahack wrote:
Union leaders got too big for their boots, thats why they got their marching orders from government, companies and even members too
in other words, they shat the bed
No! The bottom line is that they could not/would not do, what they preach to their members - Stick together.
I really believe that the unions had a place in society. It was not all honey and roses, but workers had better pay and more rights, instead of zero hour contracts and very little rights. The proof in the pudding of what I have said is that we had recessions that lasted 2/3 years, in those days we could spend our way out of it because the workforce earned a darn sight more than they do today in real terms. Today we cannot do that because the money is no longer around due to decades of the financial suppression of wages, we are screwed, and so are they,as they cannot even contemplate raising the "Interest rates" without damaging any recovery/the economy. That is the reason as to why we have been in this mess for so long.
Today's governments would never have gotten away with the corruption that is going on, also the companies would never have got away with vulgar profit, to only pay just a little remuneration for the workforce who helped to create it......the problem is -
many union bosses joined the very same self serving crowd that we now have.They more than anyone in my eyes, are to blame for today's problems - they let the country down as you have to have genuine credible opposition to a government, or they walk all over you as you can see. Basically the Unions as they were in the 60/80s etc.....kept them in check, and believe it or not......we did benefit from it.
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