Job losses mount while top union officials earn top salaries.
Cynicism and demoralisation are found among trade unionists in almost every job and union branch. There is a great potential power in the trade union movement. This means that throughout the public sector and in most private sector employments which are not just small family businesses most workers are in a union. Of course this potential is not being used. To join a trade union implies, although it may not be clearly thought out, that we have different interests to those of the boss.