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Apologies, I'd phrased it very badly - comes of hopping between doing work and procrastinating on forums.
Unions did cause a lot of problems in terms of rigid working conditions and archaic practises though. UK car industry died by not innovating, UK film industry was a joke when unions wouldn't let crew work a second longer than agreed hours, etc etc. The solution brought upon them by the Thatcher era was decimating and horrific of course; an utter demolition of their powers and hence their basic goal of protecting workers.
bashthebox
The economic problems of the 1970s were most definitely not caused by strong Trades Unions!