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also, the recent move to pushing people onto zero hours contracts leave peope afraid to join the unions and the zhc is the bullying manager's wet dream where your ability to make money can be entirely dependent on the extent to which you'll not make waves keep to the Fen Causeway
unions in the UK are very reluctant to get involved with part timers, even if it's not by the employee's choice as unions believe everyone should have a full time job.
First you organize. Then you mobilize. And then you walk out on all the insecure part-time shit. En bloc.
If you have lost your ability to mobilize, to the extent that you can't even write a Labour government's legislation anymore, then you are in no position to refuse to organize part-timers.
When did British unions lose the plot?
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
In the 50s it was a strength but even by the mid 60s it was a weakness. In the 80s it was the fatal flaw which thatcher exploited with contemptuous ease keep to the Fen Causeway
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