[JoshBB]

Originally Posted by MTVN

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

You mean a shift to an economy run purely for corporate business and one that cares very little for those at the bottom? We need trade unions to give back voice to the workers. Look at germany - they have powerful trade unions and are doing great.