Union plays politics with nurses in a risky strategy that could backfire

THE 1960s was the first time this country enjoyed prosperity since the foundation of the State, but that decade was marred by a series of strikes.

The current prosperity, on the other hand, has been relatively free of industrial unrest thanks largely to social partnership.

Over the years there have been a number of high-profile strikes in this country and abroad where the strike leaders seemed convinced they were holding the whip hand because society could not do without their services. It happened with the teachers and the train drivers in this country in this decade.