Have you been/are you a member of a Trades Union?

No, I lost a job straight out of school because I refused to join the workplace union (it was in a National Newspaper office Fleet Street)

I've been a Union member 30+yrs i only got my ill health retirement pension because they helped me. I've been retired 15yrs but my membership has continued with no more subs as a retired member. I'd always advise people to join if they can.

I was in a union too. I thought I'd better join. I didn't gain anything from membership but then I didn't need help. Maybe more of an insurance policy really. I knew our local shop stewards but they weren't very impressive.

Our generation took it for granted that membership of a trade union was a neccessity, so we joined.

Our children and grandchildren tend to see membership as an insurance they don't need.

I have often wondered here on gransnet when people talk about difficulties at work whey they don't go to their unions, but then I wonder whether they are members of one, or not.