Mincer,
I'm sorry but I don't think even you can follow your own rhetoric???
You harp on about the evils of Thatcherism coupled with the devil known as capitalism yet you insist on holding on to terms and conditions deeply rooted in both of those?
The current CC contract stems back from the day when only the wealthy could fly, they expected silver service in a pre Al Qaeda world and the most luxurious that wealth could buy. To entice people into this working environment the companies used money and perks, two of the corner stones of capitalism.
Now, you state that you despise those two words and they are trying to destroy you without grasping that your current employment, pay and terms and conditions are DIRECTLY A PRODUCT OF THEM.
Before spouting rhetoric you should at least be aware of where it comes from and what it means prior to attempting to foist it onto others in a Trotskyite manner of a union prole.