Oh I see.. Was basically just highlighting the fact that the Tories current agenda could lead the Trade Union movement to a similarly significant turning point.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taff_Vale_Case

and are opposed to that decision, and support this Act:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Disputes_Act_1906

Why?

In this world recession jobs are under threat- and they are trying to cripple ordinary working people, to smash any means of resisting attack from bosses who want to push the losses and debts they have made onto blameless workers.

A huge majority of cabin workers make an serious decision to strike- twice- after they are driven to it by a complete refusal to negotiate from the BA bosses, who have deliberately forced this strike in an attempt to make the crew unpopular. The Tories think this is frivolous, that these honest people who fear for their livelihoods and families would dare to stand up for once. The Tories do not live in the real world, but they are dictating to all of us how we should behave from their neverland.

They are attacking the very *existence* of unions. Previously they had tried to drive a wedge between private and public sector workers- now they have turned their guns on all of us. Unite is the largest union in the country, a bureaucratic, yes, but fundamentally democratic organisation. The wealthy men of power, the factory lords, gangmasters and fat cats who fund the Tories are accountable to noone but themselves, spending the wealth we create at work to destroy our rights. With all that money, they still want to grab control of the funds from the organisations that mount a defence.

Noone is stopping the Tories from making peace with the unions, for seeking support. There are plenty of Christian-democrat unions on the Continent. But when they never back workers, not even against total nightmare bosses, out of ideological hatred, they reap what they sow, and then like spoiled children throw a tantrum. It would be funny if the little emperors didn’t have all the weapons of political war at their beck and call, arrayed against us. Against our battered unions, in which every member VOTES on how they should spend the funds. It’s only by pooling money together and directing it tactically that jobs and living standards can be protected, and that crucial right is being taken away. The effect would be the same as banning unions, and that is what the Tories want.

Adam is right. The Thatcherites have revealed themselves and they want their endsieg.