In the history of union militancy and stupidity, this ranks right up there with the best of them.

And suddenly union militancy seems to be back in fashion.

Who answers the call to trade union militancy now?

The heat on executive pay will continue to rise, as will union militancy.

You could say that the union militancy out here is a throwback, frozen in time.

These protests marked the beginning of more politicized trade union militancy.

Another drawing point is that union militancy has significantly diminished here.

The hope was that these reform efforts would strengthen and consolidate the more widespread waves of union militancy found earlier in the decade.

A serious problem arises in attempting to test this hypothesis empirically: how can trade union militancy be measured?

Is Britain heading back to the future - or at least facing a general election in which union militancy is an issue?