"trades Union/Labour relationship that nearly destroyed the country in the 1970"
Utter crap
World inflation was running rampant in the 1970s - inflation at the time of 'The Winter of Discontent" so called had reached 8%85 in Britain.
Despite social contract agreements with public sector workers, the Govenment decided to cap pay rises at %5, making some of the poorest paid in th country the scapegoats for tackling inflation.
As elected representatives of the workers, The Trades Unions had no alternative bu to oppose what was a basic cut in the standard of livingof its members.
That's what the "discontent" was about.
Despite the picture painted by the Scum Press (where Terrytoon apparently goes for his informtion) no worker goes on strike willingly - the couple of times I've ever indulged (to improve our working standards) it has taken nearly a year to recover.
Thatcher, of couse, changed the situation by silencing our say in our workng standards altogether.
Jim Carroll