Unions - Attracting employers?
WORKERS, JUNE 2007 ISSUE
Having failed to attract workers to trade unions, the TUC is now trying to attract employers!
In a new leaflet entitled An Employers' Introduction to Trade Unions, the TUC highlights the benefits to employers of their employees becoming union members. It cites four things that unions do that employers should be happy with. Do these include defending workers' interests by lodging pay claims to wrench back some of the surplus value stolen from their labour power by those self-same employers?
Unfortunately not. The four things the TUC wants to use to sell unions to employers are greening the workplace, education and training, health & safety and informing and consulting workers.
Great. We can be consulted in a healthy green workplace where we've been well trained. But we can't fight the employers for wages, jobs or control of the workplace. Still, you can't really blame the TUC. It is the passivity from workers throughout Britain that has brought about this parlous state of affairs.