Tandem Jeremy, abusing me like you often do is sure sign of your lack of intelligence! I'm tired of your far left wing ideology and general misguided views. You are a waste of space "Tedious Jeremy"! 
Strikes cannot occur without the support of the membership.
They only require a minority of support due to their own unbalanced rules and so you are just WRONG on this notion!
Unions represent their members wishes, they do not impose on the members.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! They decide what they want to do and just steam ahead! The members get railroaded - BULLIED - FACT! I've been there! When I was working in a manufacturing environment, the "tail" continually "wagged the dog". That factory eventually closed along with thousands of others, not because of the effect of Margaret Thatcher's politics, but because unions made those businesses uneconomic by their perpetual demands and disruption to production. Corporations got sick of it and moved their operations to other parts of the world where people have a "can do attitude" and where their costs were much lower. Britain kust ended up with a load of people on benefits who thought/think they are owed something.
How on earth could you make striking an imprisonable offence? - go to work or go to gaol?
I didn't say that!! In your inimitable irrational way, you have twisted what i have said. I said "should disrupting air travel be made an imprisonable offence?". Striking is not a human right! The Police are not allowed to strike (and rightly so), so why should anyone?
I remember driving down the Highway near News International HQ back in the 80's. It was 10pm and we'd just left a restaurant after am area meeting and were dropping off some spares at our office (in the Highway). We were stopped by a baying angry mob of several hundred miners who'd come down from up north to riot with the sacked print workers. They were ready to turn my car over unless i told them i supported their strike - the cxxts! It was a very intimidating position to find your self in. Those guys were totally, wholly in the wrong. Fortunatly the Police escorted us away from the incident.
The fact of the matter was that unions had created a situation where a print type setter could earn several times what they were worth (something like £80,000 per annum in 1985!!??). Murdock was sick of this nonsense and set up a computerised system in Wapping which made the print worker's jobs redundant. The place was built like a fortress because Murdock knew he was going to have a fight on his hands from violent militant unions.
People with far left wing views should move to a communist country! They would fit in well there with their Marxist ideals! People like this have no commercial awareness and are just a cancer to a thriving ecomomy, spreading their poison!
The UK won't ever get back on it's feet with people like this around continually "shoving a spanner in the works"!
I expect TJ will run squealing to the mod. on here, asking for me to be banned. I hope so! It would be a good job because trying to get through the thick skulls of people like him IS a total waste of time!
