In other words, you can join whatever Union you want - but as we do not recognise any collective agreement, then we are not going to even recognise your membership - in effect making it worthless for any MF to join a trades union be it Unite or Amicus.
Pornpants1 - they can join a Union but in effect there is no point - I meant to have said they have no entitlement to the bargaining rights associated with any trades union as there is no collective arrangement - effectively making it pointless to be in ANY trades union