Our View: Justice minister makes it clear union leaders are not untouchable

An illustration of the might of unions is the fact that union leaders are well rewarded by their respective employers. And this was not the case exclusively in the public sector. The leader of the bank employees’ union Etyk, who was in the post for some 30 years, was regularly promoted and moved up the pay-scales despite doing very little, if any, productive work for his employer. On the contrary, he spent most of his time dealing with union affairs, constantly turning the screw on the banks...