> Unions ... don’t have a lasting allegiance with any political party or movement Not true in the UK - the unions have a strong relationship with the Labour pa

> Unions ... don’t have a lasting allegiance with any political party or movement Not true in the UK - the unions have a strong relationship with the Labour party, in terms of providing funding and endorsement of leadership candidates. Indeed, in its original form [0] the Labour party was created as the political wing of the unions. Many unions automatically took a cut of their members' subscriptions as labour party funding. Battles between the unions and the Conservative party have been key a feature of UK politics, e.g. the Miners' strike in the 1980s [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984–85) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_miners%27_strike_(1984–85)