In another thread "/forum/thread.asp?trid=6704" titled; "briggs equipment uk - industrial / strike action ???????",
I felt like my reply was going to be more of a discussion about trade unions/guilds and their interactions with management than about the particular action with Briggs UK, so I decided I should start a different thread and not do something that might move that discussion from a particular action to a more general discussion.

I consider it a universal truth that no union ever got into a company that did not deserve a union, and no company ever got a union that treated their employees better than the union [and it's members] would have expected as the minimum acceptable.

The best way I have ever seen to prevent employees from unionizing would be to treat your employees better than whomever is in competition for those employees.

We all work for respect, and payroll is only 1 of those ways an employer shows respect for their employees (a big and important 1, but not the only 1).