Paul22118 - // In the seventies the British car industry was in a hell of a state. It was, thought many people going to crash out - and it did. It was steered to the precipice by a communist convener called Derek Robinson, or red Robbo as he was well known. Many believe he single handedly killed the British motor industry allowing BMW, Mercedes etc plus all the Japanese Companies to fill - successfully - the void. Mr Lynch is in that vein. Who remembers Red Robbo? So let us sit back and watch the rail industry die. //
I suspect you are falling for the media nonsense in this - assuming that the mouthpiece for the union is actually the power behind the strike action.
It's easy for the media to create a 'bogey man' for the public to fixc their ire on, they did it with Mr Robinson, Mr Scargill, and now with Mr Lynch.
But if you recall history, rather than the media spin, you will recall that the unions represented by both Mr Robinson and Mr Scargill eventually rejected their respective calls for strikes, and negotiated settlements.
I clearly remember images of Mr Robinson leaving a public ballot in tears when it failed to go the way he wanted.
These men were, and are representatives of a union, they speak what their members want them to say, they don't make it up, and they have no meaningful power whatsoever.