The Financial Times Wants "legal Sanctions" Against Strikes

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In an editorial on June 9th, the Financial Times drew what it called "The Lessons of London Airport". After outlining its version of the recent strike, it went on: "As with most industrial events, this one has a...concrete cause. The first is the degeneracy of the comand system ‘in the trade unions, which means they no longer effectively perform their main job of managing discontent... The second cause is the system of labour relations so..that men can break their contract of employment with impunity..." The editorial then went on to call for a tough "Companies Act" for the trade unions which would provide for legal sanctions to see that collective bargaining is kept. It combined this proposal with one of the compulsory collection of union dues by employers where thee has been a majority vote by the workers concerned. It seems that some sinister plots are being hatched!