As it stands in the UK, unions are vital. Employment law is just not, or is it not just? We are only a 100 years on from the Master and Servants act.
But why give the current Government reason to legislate? The 60's and 70's were like a kid with a new toy, but then Mrs T (mum) stepped in and sent us to bed. We just have not grown up and we are not as cute as Peter Pan, but we do seem to live in a fictional world at times.
Litebulbs, I'll bite.
Perhaps they should have exchanges with German and American unions, who seem to work much better with employers at times of difficulty.
Instead of going to visit the Thai motor industry unions and stopping off in whore bars for bit of fun.
BASSA, and by implication UNITE, have dragged the Union movement back to the 1970's, because you have socialist dinosaurs leading the latter and immature cretins leading the former.