Dear Editor,

My heart bleeds for the TUC as I watch the government’s treatment of organised labour and the behaviour of some labour leaders. As a former trade unionist, I participated in many trade union conferences in the 1970s and 1980s. Those were the days when the workers’ cause was foremost, and many sense it was given tacit support by the government. Many trade union leaders from the public service, bauxite and sugar unions engaged in fierce and passionate debates within the unions’ walls and struggled on the streets for workers’ rights……