Sure, he might well have imporved things for his union members, but his chosen methods impinged on hundreds of thousands if not millions of other working people - that was more what I was getting at, though I do see how my post would be interpreted in a way I didn't really mean. His precious strikes stopped people from working across London (not just the strikers themselves). He wasn't a champion of the working man, he was a champion of a small minority of people and he cared nothing about what happens to those not in his union.
And he did this over and over and over again, for pretty much any excuse (we're already getting a good wage and we're being offered an above inflation pay rise? How disgraceful, we must strike!!! having to work on new year's eve even at double [maybe even more, I forget] pay? SRIKE!! The Olympics are important, why not get a pay rise from threatening to strike in the middle of them?). As someone who worked in London (I don't anymore) I was utterly sick and tired by the RMT and their selfish behavior. Even when I would have some level of sympathy for their cause (the latest disputes over ticket offices for example), it's gotten to the point where I want these changes to happen just to spite them.
