Wow it's like the Luddites all over again!
It is the job of TUs to try to protect jobs... but they can only do so if they have valid grounds. Wanting to ignore progress and do things "the old way" in order to keep people in jobs is not valid grounds.
Change should always be challenged to make sure it actually is better - generally it is!
(he replied via a touch-screen, multi-media handset whilst waiting in line at the sandwich shop........ bring back typing pools!!
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