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  Trade Unions play a vital role. They endeavour to create a fair society. We have seen many reports and features very recently about the ever widening pay gap between employers and workers. Even traditional Tories like David Cameron himself is beginning to baulk at the levels of salaries that top management are paying themselves. There is no retraint. The gaps have widened significantly in recent times. High flying salaries and remunerations get ever more..well high flying. Wages for the average worker, as one report said yesterday, havent significantly increased at all in 30 years.
  
  The problem for some unions though can be one of public image. Some of the guys that lead the unions are unfortunately fairly awful in this media age. Bob Crowe for one. I admire his gusto but he comes from and/or belongs in a different age. You now need persuasion and cajoling to get the unions back on a more powerful footing. Its a media image thing, but it is important because you have to take the people with you, you have to have support. The old barrel thumping stuff is out.
  
  The latest move from the Conservatives that 50% of the workforce or more must vote for a strike to be valid, doesnt hold out in any other democratic vote. If more than 50% of those that actually vote, vote for strike action, then that should be all thats required. If the silent section of the population dont vote in a general election it doesnt stop the MP being returned on say a 37% turnout.

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