I agree totally with Steve.
One of the great ploys of 'them upstairs' is to set one group of workers against the other and take our attentions off the real issues.
It is the duty of all Trades Unions to do their best for the groups they represent - that is what they were elected to do. I can still remember our 'democratic' media turning on the print unions and claiming how unfair it was that the printers were living in the lap of luxury while the rest of 'us' had to slave away for everything we got. This tactic is another reason to remember the miners strike and how the government managed to play off one section of the miners against the other.
Calls for national unity at the time of crisis ring a little hollow coming from people who continue to feather their own nests to obscene levels of opulence from the public purse, who claim millions from taxes to 'build palaces for their ducks' and claim expenses for travelling to work from homes they don't occupy.
If we are all going to "pull together", it would be a little encouraging to see some movement from the top in that direction, from the corrupt and incompetent politicians and the blood-sucking economists who created this mess, instead of being left with the feeling that somehow it is our fault and they are knights in shining armour doing their best to get us out of 'our' mess, that, as far as they are concerned, has "nuffing to do wiv us guv".
Sorry if this seems like a left-wing backlash, John Mc - (another phrase which along with "blind stupidity' helps split us down the middle and leave us with the feeling that somehow it is all our fault).
Jim Carroll