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Should housewives be paid wages? And are you on Facebook?

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Brendan Barber, general secretary of the TUC

Do you think the Tube strike did more damage to the cause of its workers than good?

Nigel Baxter

London W4

The dispute has ended because Metronet employees have won crucial guarantees including on the future of their pensions. That's a cause worth fighting for. Disputes that affect the public are never popular, particularly when people are in the middle of difficult alternative journeys. Yet without unions, the cuts that have occurred in pensions over recent years would have gone much wider and deeper, and there would not be a new pensions system starting in 2012 which will compel all employers to contribute to staff ...

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