Susan O'Keeffe:
Trade unions – the very name sounds archaic. What in the name of all that is
career-driven in the 21 st century – is a trade? When did you last hear someone
talk about taking up a trade? Then remember the Karl Marx notion that
workers had nothing to lose “but their chains” if they came together to fight
their employers – well that’s hardly of the zeitgeist is it?
Ah but not ...