Stu - I love the way you talk with such authority!
Do you ACTUALLY know all there is to know about the BA strike or do you only know what you read in the press.
Do you ACTUALLY know all the details behind the firefighters' strike? That one reason for their industrial action was because they were concerned that the proposed 'streamlining' of the service might actually put lives at risk. These are the same guys we're all mourning at the moment because two of them lost their lives to save others.
Unless you actually KNOW the arguments on both sides, you are very wrong to label people and to generalise.
There's a book you should read. It's called The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. Read it and maybe, just maybe, you'll understand just how much you and I and most working people owe the Trade Union movement.