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I'm not sure Unions will ever become completely obsolete but they do need to modernise. At the moment union leaders often look like sad old men of a bygone age trying to cling to the days when they could bring the country to a grinding halt with strike action and wanting to relive the 70s. The country has moved on though, in most areas old fashioned industrial workplaces are a thing of the past and the Unions were far too slow to realise the shift to a service based economy