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Should housewives be paid wages? And are you on Facebook?
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The Independent - London
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September 10, 2007
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You ask the questions ...
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 ...