[Gllug] Trades unions

[Jason Clifford]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, John Hearns wrote:

> I'd like to ask about trades union membership for IT types.
> I guess that there's a whole spectrum of people on GLLUG -
> from students, part time, self employed, employed, unemployed.
> 
> Do unions thee days cater for people who have work patterns
> like 'us'.
> After all - we're always being told that we should have a flexible
> workforce.

Our of interest what exactly do you want from a trade union?

For myself I've never seen any benefit for myself (even when I worked in 
permie jobs years ago) in union membership.

Jason Clifford
-- 
UKFSN.ORG		Finance Free Software while you surf the 'net
http://www.ukfsn.org/	   1Mb ADSL Broadband - just £27.50 / month 


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug