There was a forum along these lines some time ago I seem to remember.
I agree and think it essential that we stick together. The ALEA is the obvious route to go down.
However for some people this may represent a problem. I used to work for a big company that was represented by the AEEU (which we were all in). In pay negotiations the licence engineers would definately have been better standing alone. This was discussed and produced some pretty harsh reactions from the rest of the workforce i.e. stores ,office staff, site etc etc..
It appeared the company would also have liked to give the engineers more, but couldn't afford to fund everyone else by the same amount.
These engineers would have to be pretty hard faced to go it alone!!!!Any ideas guys?