Since the strike breaking Thatcher years I often wonder what the real alternative to striking should be. No-one wants to return to the power cuts and 3 day weeks we had but on the other hand what tools do the genuinely downtrodden have available to them? Why could a genuine indepenant body, maybe based on UCAS, not be used to resolve the difficulties? I don't have the answers I'm afraid but neither more union power nor a return to draconian management seem a good idea. Well, not to me anyway!

DeG