On 5 Aug, 18:29, Bruce wrote:
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:12:21 -0700 (PDT), MIG

wrote:

I should have been clearer that by "banker" I wasn't referring to the
many thousands of people who do jobs involved in the transfer of money
etc, which is a service that should probably be nationalised, along
with the railways.

Perhaps you didn't notice, but most of the UK banks have been
nationalised and now belong to us, the taxpayers. *Do keep up.

I wish I had your faith in how long any kind of employment rights
would continue without unions.

It's about putting your faith in the rule of law, rather than mob rule
by some particularly disgusting specimens of the lowest form of human
life, a.k.a. leaders of unions such as the RMT.

Unions campaign for laws to be a certain way. Why would they bother
if they didn't put faith in the law?

Laws can be changed. We have (legal) employment rights because unions
have campaigned for them. They can be taken away again when employers
campaign for strikes to be banned, health and safety, maternity leave,
holiday pay and sick pay to be abolished etc.

Or is acting within legislation that one has campaigned for "mob
rule"? So is any kind of lobbying in that case.