“Devotees of the television series Ashes to Ashes are familiar with the scene. With management and unions at BA locked in confrontation, it may look and feel like 1983 but, in the real world, trade union legislation has changed the rules fundamentally from the days when a show of hands around a burning brazier was enough to close a workplace.”
The Times, 27th May 2010
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk