In the New Statesman James Bloodworth argues that trade unions deliver to their members what he calls a higher "premium" (as if it were some kind of dividend) than non-unionised workers: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/06/if-miliband-serious-about-tackling-low-pay-he-needs-embrace-unions
Unfortunately he uses out of date research (2008, when the world was completely different) written by highly partisan and left-wing authors.
Therefore one is bound to say that his arguments are negated.
Is the New Statesman some kind of propaganda rag that it prints ropey articles like this?
Anyone who has been a member of a closed shop trade union (which I assume is the system James Bloodworth is so nostalgic for) will know that they are little better than protection rackets working to benefit the bosses and the trade union officials (especially local shop stewards) in cahoots together against the ordinary workers.
The "protection" they gave workers in the 1960s and 1970s was the same kind of protection Al Capone used to offer.
Update added: Patrick Butler (Guardian Journalist, social policy editor and Head of Society, Health and Education at the Guardian) tells us "Senior civil servants' base salary has dropped by 17.4% in past three years, says national audit office" - so much for the civil service unions then!
Unfortunately he uses out of date research (2008, when the world was completely different) written by highly partisan and left-wing authors.
Therefore one is bound to say that his arguments are negated.
Is the New Statesman some kind of propaganda rag that it prints ropey articles like this?
Anyone who has been a member of a closed shop trade union (which I assume is the system James Bloodworth is so nostalgic for) will know that they are little better than protection rackets working to benefit the bosses and the trade union officials (especially local shop stewards) in cahoots together against the ordinary workers.
The "protection" they gave workers in the 1960s and 1970s was the same kind of protection Al Capone used to offer.
Update added: Patrick Butler (Guardian Journalist, social policy editor and Head of Society, Health and Education at the Guardian) tells us "Senior civil servants' base salary has dropped by 17.4% in past three years, says national audit office" - so much for the civil service unions then!
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