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  Here we go,
  Barryw Its of no surprize your comments along the anti trade union slant.
  
  I think Gary has given a real good posting from the other side(if there are sides)
  
  Scargill at that time did get a number of things wrong, timing/ballots/ etc but never the less what was worse was Maggies intent on destroying the NUM and trade unions in general.
  
  Thankfully a number of trade unions learnt from the unfair methods Maggie used, and themseves reformed to combat future attacks by maggie.
  
  Sadly we see locally the how communities have been/are ripped apart by Maggies view to take on the NUM an the bigger picture of the trade unions.
  
  
  This did little for industrial relations not only in the mining community but also across many other companies.business's
  
  As an active trade unionist for 25 years (and still a rep for unison!)
  Nothing Maggie did heled workers or the trade unions themselves.
  
  
  She had one aim, to take on Scargill, to attempt to smash the NUM and trade unions in general.
  Sadly a lot of what scargill said at the time(number of pits to close) was denied
  sadly he was right.
  
  Theres lots of things that went on during this period that horrified me, and iv worked down Tilmanstone.
  
  What maggie wanted was everyone to go back to the victorian begging for a job at the gate days, not even handed industrial relations where the trade unions working hand in hand with employers.
  
  it happened often, but the maggies days caused rifts in industrial relations.
  
  There was a lot more behind this move by maggie
  
  As everyone knows

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