Bus drivers’ strike - Unions at their Ismay moment

JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY, once chairman of the White Star Line, the owners of the Titanic, won infamy, deserved or otherwise, for dressing as a woman to get a place on one of the last lifeboats after the liner hit an iceberg and sank almost 105 years ago to the day. 

He was so excoriated he had to spend a considerable proportion of his remaining years in seclusion at Costello Lodge in Connemara.

He was exiled by his peers because he was imagined a coward who should have gone down with his ship.