Quote Originally Posted by nassim View Post
Testify! Worked in a number of union shops for the better part of a decade. Unions are the REAL enemy of the working man!
That is a very wide statement and very untrue. In the UK without the unions help today the British nurses would be walked over by big money men in Hospital trusts. Their wages are on a comparison basis to garbage collectors very low. Their wages are kept low because of the employment of cheaper care workers that quite honestly apart from a few, they are bloody useless and in some cases incompetent and unfit for the job. I spent 12 years in one Hospital watching my wife slowly die, and over the years the fully trained nurse was decreasing until three years ago when she died. Then there were maybe three real nurses to a ward and about 8 care workers. The nurses union will always get my vote of approval, and I believe that some, not all unions are needed as much today as they were in the 1950s. All the time the government in the UK sell off government held stocks to the greedy under the name of privatisation, then there will always be needed someone to bring the new owners to account. The reason these stocks are sold is not to make the government rich over night but to make them richer over time as it is one less wage to worry about.

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