Rail strike is poor timing for Labour | Letter
by Letters from on (#4W2V2)
How many more years will it take trade union leaders to finally get it? asks Jonathan Harris
How many more years will it take trade union leaders to finally get it? As John Harris's perceptive article shows, for most voters they are an irrelevance (The 'red wall' is looking shaky. But the rot set in decades ago, Journal, 2 December). For many others who still remember the bad old days before Thatcher, they remain a ball and chain round Labour's neck.
Yet in the last few days before the most important general election in decades, the RMT has decided to press ahead with its own parochial strike (Rail users face months of chaos as South Western guards begin strike action, 2 December).
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