Striking is not just about 800 per cent pay rise

If eventually paid well from public coffers, all the labourer’s labour should happen in the public sector, he should not break the unionist code by moonlighting for the private sector

The expatriate community might own every Land Rover in Kenya and spend its time eating at the swankiest Nairobi restaurants, but the expatriate is a great supporter of trade unions.

In his own country – I am especially thinking about the expatriate who is employed on a two-year contract in some British curriculum school or other – he was a member of one of the many UK trade unions for teachers, possibly the NUT.