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Are you sure you meant private sector ?

We're making arrangements to work around it but it is costing us money.

You knew what I meant. Personally, if the unions are to have any credability, they should detach themselves from the links to politics and be standalone organisations - let Labour be Labour without the Union input. Then the Unions can be polittically unbias and properly fight for their members...

You said the following ( note the word NEVER ) .... I was just pointing out you were wrong .... as union members often are. I have no problem with 'basic rights', I'm just pointig out that businesses, if they wish, have the technology to work around union disputes. So workers can strike all...

Errr ... many a fight uses Autoland - especially in fog. I used to work for the CAA SRG if it helps back that statement up.

Of course. The Euro Fighter can't phsyically stay in the air without computers - so the idea that commercial airlines can't use the technology already available ( as in a plane can already be taken off, flown and landed purely by computer ) is utterly wrong. I'd trust a computer that has no...

My point being that if trade unions continue to hold the traveling public to ransom then technology is the likely winner in that the businesses can get rid of drivers / pilots.

Both of which can be driven / flown entirely by computers.

Nope, I haven't - never worked in a business that has been unionised.

Of course it's blackmail - give us what we want or we'll punish your customers - how is that not blackmail ?

I've been shat on and I've used lawyers ... the two times I've had to use lawyers have cost me about £500 in total - covered by my then employers. In comparison if I'd been a member of Unite for my whole career I'd have paid over £4k and their legal advice is shite. Lawyers will always get you a...

Unions should be there to represent their members not a political party.

Well maybe I should send an invoice to the idiot railways union that have now cost my company an extra £500 thanks to their up and coming strike ? I will never support an organisation that uses blackmail to get what it wants and it is for that reason I have crossed half a dozen picket lines...

That the unions you list are the ones that cause the most inconvenience to the public - i.e. they have the greatest blackmail cards.

I note that all the unions you list can bring the country / commuters to their knees if required.

The problem being Unions are political. If they were real unions then they wouldn't be affiliated to any political party. Then they might actually be seen to represent their members.

Unions have one single aim - to increase their own power. They couldn't give two hoots about their members. My partner was a member of a union and called on them twice and they were utter shite. The second time I paid for her to be represented by an employment lawyer - cost £175 and she won £10k...