Strikes are low, but discontent is expressed in other ways

Alan Fisher (white mac) of Nupe, and David Basnett (centre) of the GMWU head a mass march to parliament during the 1978-79 ‘winter of discontent’.Less than 25% of employees are now trade union members.Attacks on the right to strike are undemocratic, especially when too many workers already have so little collective bargaining power, evidenced by falling wages and even by the rising food bank use by the low-paid.