Comments on: Unions innovate to attract members http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/unions-innovate-to-attract-members/ Tribune - Comment, news and reviews from Britain's democratic left Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Robert http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/unions-innovate-to-attract-members/comment-page-1/#comment-11575 Robert Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:21:35 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/?p=5693#comment-11575 I worked at a factory when I started you had to be in a Union the closed shop, then it went to half the people, then one day when we walked out on a strike after a death the Union told us they would not back us, we walked out again on wages and we were not backed, so people walked away in droves when it finally closed 350 people worked at the factory 3 people belonged to the Union, and I was one of them. Unions spend to long on political issues these days and not enough looking after the people, web have in some cases just become the cash cow for the aims of the Unions to be political, when we called to disaffiliate from the Labour party we were called commies and Trots by the Unions. I worked at a factory when I started you had to be in a Union the closed shop, then it went to half the people, then one day when we walked out on a strike after a death the Union told us they would not back us, we walked out again on wages and we were not backed, so people walked away in droves when it finally closed 350 people worked at the factory 3 people belonged to the Union, and I was one of them.

Unions spend to long on political issues these days and not enough looking after the people, web have in some cases just become the cash cow for the aims of the Unions to be political, when we called to disaffiliate from the Labour party we were called commies and Trots by the Unions.

]]> By: Robert http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/02/unions-innovate-to-attract-members/comment-page-1/#comment-22001 Robert Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:21:00 +0000 http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/?p=5693#comment-22001 I worked at a factory when I started you had to be in a Union the closed shop, then it went to half the people, then one day when we walked out on a strike after a death the Union told us they would not back us, we walked out again on wages and we were not backed, so people walked away in droves when it finally closed 350 people worked at the factory 3 people belonged to the Union, and I was one of them. Unions spend to long on political issues these days and not enough looking after the people, web have in some cases just become the cash cow for the aims of the Unions to be political, when we called to disaffiliate from the Labour party we were called commies and Trots by the Unions. I worked at a factory when I started you had to be in a Union the closed shop, then it went to half the people, then one day when we walked out on a strike after a death the Union told us they would not back us, we walked out again on wages and we were not backed, so people walked away in droves when it finally closed 350 people worked at the factory 3 people belonged to the Union, and I was one of them.

Unions spend to long on political issues these days and not enough looking after the people, web have in some cases just become the cash cow for the aims of the Unions to be political, when we called to disaffiliate from the Labour party we were called commies and Trots by the Unions.

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