It’s not just the lack of proportion (a ballot threshold is “cracking down on working people”? The National Union of Mineworkers used to require a 55% majority when they had pithead votes).,
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It’s the apparent eagerness to use it as a reason to pull from the talks on the Hutton proposals for future public service pensions.
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But they’d do well not to get carried away. Hutton’s recommendations are carefully crafted for the times we’re in. And the last time the TUC tried to co-ordinate national action against an elected government it flopped so badly they never tried it again. It was so long ago hardly anyone now remembers it. Indeed it was as long ago as the Iranian hostage crisis.
The big unions clearly feel under pressure from the far left attempt to bounce them into action on 30 June,
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I’m reminded of it by union reaction to Vince Cable’s unexceptional observation that,
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