Unions - good or bad?

[LE Greys]

I know when to stop digging.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Without unions there would be no NHS. Wages would be paid in kind, rather than cash. Very few people would own their own homes. Large chunks of Africa would still be white-ruled.

I was totally unaware of the role played by the Trades Union movement in setting up the National Health Service in the 1940's, by the Labour Government that won a landslide victory in the first General Election after the end of the Second World War. Could you kindly give some examples of how this occurred.

You state that without unions, wages would be paid in kind rather than in cash. It appears that you are unaware of the year in which the Truck Act was first placed onto the Statute Book which was 1831, which was long before the formation of a co-ordinated Trades Union Movement.

Your comments with regard to "Large chunks of Africa would still be white-ruled" and the correlation to a Trades Union Movement in those countries is somewhat in need of further explanation when the period of 1955 onwards was when Independence movements in those countries really began to coalesce, but your assertion totally ignores the nationalistic aspirations of a ruled people to return to the pre-colonialisation period. You make no mention of those countries that were "Arab-ruled", especially those in the Horn of Africa.