He’s pandering to popular opinion. Unions can help with employee protection but while they

are currently pulling everyone out on strike for pay rises, many unions, certainly including those of the emergency services, are the very reason for the lack of pay rises over the last five or more years. They have held out for unrealistic deals and thereby lost what was already on the table.

The problem with some unions is that the people who get involved in them at a decision making level are precisely the people you don’t want in those positions. Too often they are people who don’t have responsibility or power at their actual work because they don’t have the skills. Many people who do have those skills don’t want to volunteer for more of it.

A sweeping generalisation of course, but the above is certainly true in some cases.

There obviously needs to be some sort of employee protective authority, but I think some reform is needed because as it currently stands workers (including those not in the unions) are negatively affected by unions as often as their management. And the union leaders don’t behave any differently to the management of the employees anyway.

Posted By: Legacy Fan, Dec 22, 19:33:16