LD thanks for that. I always thought that a selling point of trade unions was that they would always be by your side in the event of trouble with the management. Perhaps that is too simplistic a view.
On the subject of simplistic views, I see on the staff thread, A13 a new poster has offered the following advice to Betty Girl.
if you were a member of Bassa perhaps you could of influenced things from within.
I wonder how she was supposed to achieve that with the current set up, where they do not even put a proposal to the membership when it was agreed by the Union Gen Sec to do so?