Seems TSSA have backed down over weekend strikes.

Shame those CUNDS at RMT won't put the entire nation first for a change.

*Cough* I said 'I hope the clergy have a union'

RMT called it off now as well.

Still a bunch of slags.

I've always found it amazing that retired workers who are still members of the union get to vote on strike action. They won't have to walk out and lose a day's pay (must be some sort of power trip to be able to insist on people who actually stand to lose out by strike action when you won't personally be affected).

The comparisons with elections are, of course, fallacious (as I'm sure those making them are well aware). Expecting a decent majority in a yes/no decision seems far more reasonable than expecting it in a Con/Lab/LD/Green/UKIP/SNP/PC/Other choice.

If you get a quarter of the votes in an upwards of 6 horse race, you're doing pretty well.

Anyone who is still working and fails to vote is a bit spineless in my opinion (I can understand the whole "none of the above, they are all weasels" attitude in an election, but "I don't know whether to strike or not so I'll just leave it to others to decide" seems an indication of indifference to the issue)

Am I right in thinking that those against unions are happy for workers not to have any say in how they are treated? Or recourse of action if they are treated unfairly?

I think the unions lost their way a while ago. More interested in issuing credit cards and supporting the 'rights' of various self-important minority interests.

Jack Jones - there was a proper union man.