[Abernathy]

Did you know that there is an explicitly right-wing "trade union", called https://www.workersofengland.co.uk/w-e- ... iations-2/ "Workers of England"?

Not affiliated to the Labour Party, but The Taxpayers alliance

[Youngian]

Apparently ‘This is a non-political campaign group,’ before listing swivel right wing groups he supports. What’s the point of an English parliament within the UK? It’s already 80 percent English.

[MisterMuncher]

"Politically Homeless" is always code for fash as fuck

[Boiler]

My trade union is shit but I don't think I'll be rushing to join this one.

However, "national" trades unions have been tried before.

[Andy McDandy]

Human beings are rational creature. They usually act upon rationally in different spheres of their lives. Similarly, workers join a union with a rationale approach whether joining a union will be benefi­cial or not. This can simply be decided by making a cost-benefit analysis in this regard. The excess of benefits over costs, i.e., profit or reward, justifies workers’ joining to a trade union.

Researchers have devoted a great deal of time and effort to study “why do employees choose to join a union.” They have failed to report a common list of reasons that apply to all organising efforts.

Nonetheless, there is a general agreement among the labour experts that certain issues are likely to lead to an organising drive by workers Major ones among them are the following:

It's a bit like Andre Previn's notes. They're all there, just not in the right order....