When we are in a recession and everyone is scrapping around for money how come Rolls Royce have the best profits they have ever had? Seems that the rich don't suffer the same as those less fortunate. As to unions being scum - women would not have the same equal rights for pay as men if the Unions didn't exist. A lot of the laws that protect your employment are a direct result of the lobbying of Unions in the past. Too many people have a Maggie Thatcher attitude to the Unions - the Unions are there to support their paying members and act upon their members views. As to going on strike - do any of you really believe that any working man or woman in these times of decreasing living standards really wants to lose money? I don't. Going on stike isn't the first thing they want to do - its the last thing.
I'm not endorsing a return to the 70's - its all about balance and that balance since dear old Maggie was in power has shifted to far to the rich fat cats.