So trades unionism is on the way out, is it?

Allow me a little expression of hatred. Of all the categories of brute in the world, I hold a special loathing for union-busters. Given two bullets and the choice of an abortionist, Robert Mugabe, or a union-buster, I would shoot the union-buster, twice, to make sure. The monstrous intellectual perversion that pretends that employees should negotiate alone by themselves with employers who hold the power of whole cities, whole nations, and calls this defending freedom, is something that is very far beyond my ability to imagine, let alone to sympathize with.

The article I include is by a union-buster. And proud of it, the bastard. A former American senator with the ridiculous name of Malcolm Wallop (one might say that God sometimes gets his retribution in in advance - why is it that so many unpleasant people have ridiculous names, John Spong, Kevin Naff, Malcolm Wallop?). So I recommend that you read the following article as you would a note from your worst enemy, with the due interpretative attitude.

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The brute, clearly, is running scared.