10th March 2010, 09:43 PM
It's the problem with transient staff. You'd normally join either the union that your employer recognised,or the one that you and your colleagues wanted to get recognized. If you're not going to be there when it does get recognised, or have moved from a private unit to a local authority unit, it causes problems - prospect wouldn't represent me when I worked for an LA unit, as they said I should be in Unison... That's why hosty's plan for working together is so important. It's the only way that the fragmentation of the unions could be overcome without having to chop and change every couple of months...