Tony Woodley is general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and in the Guardian gives us this little insight into his views:
Both banks and oil
companies are monopolies or near-monopolies, routinely abusing their
economic power to the consumer’s disadvantage.
Really? 400 odd banks in the City, hundreds of mortgage suppliers, further hundreds of credit card suppliers, this is a monopoly? Oil refining and retailing is as cut-throat a business as there is. I wonder what the hell he thinks a real monopoly looks like…y’know, one with a closed shop, where a particular union has a monopoly on the supply of labour in a certain firm or industry.
No, I’m not all that surprised at the decline of the trade unions in the UK.
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