[Barrie Yates]

[quote=garinda;799208]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

I must point out that in the '50s it was necessary to be a Trade Union member - if you weren't then you didn't get a job. /quote]

Though this changed after 1964, because of the ruling after the Rookes vs. Barnard case.


Before that of course, if you were vehemently opposed to becoming a union member, in those halcyon days of full employment, you could have picked a line of work that didn't require union membership.

Not if you wanted a worthwhile trade, but by then I had taken the Queen's Shilling and was in Borneo defending Malaysia (including Singapore then), against Indonesia - the first of my Brush Fires. Lovely days.