Based on the UK's industrial strike record allowing the German's and Japanese to steal our manufacturing lunch money, there is a REASON why this country WOULD have put in place in the 1980's the toughest legislation in Europe - our workers were led by donkeys with more allegiance to the old Soviet Union than the British Queen and country.
“Douglas Eden reveals the extraordinary penetration of the 1970s Labour movement by pro-Soviet trade unionists and the extent of Callaghan’s toleration of the hard Left.”
www.spectator.co.uk/features/3665728/we-came-close-to-losing-our-democracy-in-1979/
A perfect example and worth reading about IN FULL what happens when militant trade unions think they run a company, or indeed the country.
news.bbc.co.uk/local/liverpool/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8401000/8401200.stm
“British Leyland's Speke factory symbolised all that was wrong with UK car manufacturing in the dark days of the 1970s, a million miles away from the high performing plants of today at Ellesmere Port and Halewood.”
“In 1978 British Leyland's Speke Number Two plant was under threat of closure, afflicted by a series of crippling strikes, low sales of the TR7 it manufactured, and a history of poor industrial relations coupled with inefficiencies.”
“In 1970 British Leyland, who had taken over Triumph, spent £10.5 million building Speke Number Two plant, it was one of the most modern and best equipped plants in Europe designed to build 100,000 vehicles a year all under one roof.”
“When BBC Nationwide visited in February 1978 the plant only had a few months of life left.”
As Trade Union bosses currently look to control our parliament and try to dictate government policy i.e. appointments of party leaders or proclaim to MPs they fund/sponser that any attempt to get our honking national finances under control can only be "austerity", the UK public has to be protected from a minority of militants in trade unions, striking and inconveniencing them for their own political agenda.
So rather than a militant faction intimidate other workers and carry their motion, a percentage of the total workers needing to have voted protects the company/industry/jobs and usually the public, if provides public services.
When the London Tube Drivers closed down London a year or so ago due to the L.T. management deciding Ticket Offices being closed, a politically driven strike was called not because their 'members' weren't offered new jobs/redundancy that they were unhappy with - it was because a trade union called it 'unsafe', as if anyone could fall on the lines from a ticket office. dah.
The Japanese have never had trade unions, the German's fell out of love with Communism after their men & women were murdered/raped by the Red Army after the fall of Berlin so their trade unions have always WORKED with management - not opposed them at every turn.