In the UK, being a member of a trade union usually includes a contribution to the Labour party.
Trade union membership and ideological politics are intertwined. This is a good thing and by design.
Trade union membership and ideological politics are intertwined. This is a good thing and by design.
Maybe you're making a distinction between party politics (e.g. endorsing specific candidates) and pushing for general policies, but I think it's incoherent to claim that labor unions are apolitical.
It's just not all that common.
Aligning to a party can be argued, I'd say it's best to break things up into policies more than "teams" but still.
BALPA is more comparable to a potential Google union as it's equally representing a tiny group of elite and extremely well compensated individuals. I don't think that a google employee has much in common with traditional populations of leftist party aligned unions like the factory line worker or coal miner.
> I don't think that a google employee has much in common with traditional populations of leftist party aligned unions like the factory line worker or coal miner.
Not right now, sure. But the fact that this group felt the need to unionize suggests that something is changing.