UNISON is a big bad thing if press reports, councillors comments and even other unions are to be believed. http://www.unison-edinburgh.org.uk/un/unsep98.html
We are accused of being locked in the past with quaint ideas like protecting jobs and conditions, fighting for publicly funded and accountable public services and trying to save the taxpayer from the £billions wasted on the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and privatisation.