SIR – I never read Councillor Miller’s comments on trade unions, about which Eric Mills writes (Letters, February 5), but I feel sure the former was not opposed to union membership per se, but to the Council’s having to bear any financial burden imposed by the unions consequent of it. Quite right, too.
The unions do endeavour, rightly so, to defend certain rights of the majority of its members but not of any small minority, who sincerely disapprove of the strong rhetoric of union leaders urging industrial action.
At least six leaders have six-figure salaries, which they should forgo, while they go on strike against George Osborne’s stance on the tax rate of high earners. That would be the day!
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