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Old 5th Feb 2011, 11:33
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The first stumbling block would be for me to raise it at a union meeting!

Forcing membership is here today, because of legislation. You want to collectively negotiate and vote, you need to be in a union. What I am suggesting will not change that, but will require a stronger mandate from the workforce. If 49.9% are happy with the situation, then why allow 50.1% have their way? It will be about concessions on both sides of work. A right to strike, or action short of against a bigger percentage in favour of.

Obviously it would be naive of me to think that it would be simple. Business would just be looking for it to be harder for unions to call action, without anything in return. But that isn't very coalition.

Unionism and votes are currently only pretending to be democratic anyway. If you don't like the vote, you leave. I might not like the current Government, but I still have to abide by the rules, regardless.
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