Don

Your post can't get around the fundamental contradiction. Employers have to keep wages down to compete; simultaneously, they worry about sales not continuing to grow to satisfy their shareholders , and themselves.

So they look to the Nanny State to help them out by providing benefits, like Working Tax Credit, which saves the employers having to pay them in the form of wages.

And then have the gall to complain that government is on their back.

We have had a relatively strike-free 10 - 15 years since the Tories brought in anti-union legislation that our brave , bold labour government has done nothing about.

And we still have 1.6 million unemployed, millions hovering around or below the minimum wage, a major still growing housing crisis, the prices of food, housing, oil all rising, and clearly NOT related to strikes in the slightest.

But I repeat myself. Seemingly i have to.

I have lkeft above any numbers of points not yet addressed.


   Ivor