Compulsory unionism
Sir,—The letters of E. Mulcock and David Shanks (June 29) reveal a basically anti-union position, camouflaged as outrage about alleged political misuse of compulsory unionism. In their view unionism, whether compulsory or voluntary, should keep to a rigid nonpolitical and non-militant place in society. They forget, or choose to ignore, that it is a capitalist society we have in New Zealand. In common with all capitalist societies, it is unable to solve the class struggle which developed with it, and which made the rise of unionism necessary. A State apparatus, including some democratic rights, most of which had to be won from it in bitter battles, also developed with it. Militant employers, through this State, and also from their economic powers as owners of industry, have never ceased trying to destroy or emasculate unionism. Compulsory unionism came about as a political part of workers’ resistance to these attacks.—Yours, etc., R. TATE. June 30, 1983.
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