Whilst ADN is not a trade union, becoming one or joining up with one is a long-term goal of ours.
In this world, specifically the UK, the vast majority of people cannot live without working, it is necessary for life. The businesses and organisations (private or public sector) we work for know this and they know that the less power their workers have over their employment, the more money the businesses can make.
An easy way to think about it is through surplus profit, whether you are a dental nurse, a coal miner or a airline pilot, the work you do generates more money for the business than you get paid. In the past, before workers' rights people were forced to live in pitiful conditions and had absolutely no power to change anything. The rich business owners got richer and the poor workers got poorer.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs were six agricultural labourers from the village of Tolpuddle in Dorset, England, who, in 1834, were convicted of swearing a secret oath as members of the Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers. These labourers made a plan together, that they would withhold their labour (strike) in order to force their masters to improve the labourer's working conditions and pay. We call them martyrs because they were hanged, executed for what they had done.
Without heroes like the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Suffragettes, and many others we would still be forced to live in pitiful conditions and work ourselves to death just to try to live. The greatest achievement of the workers that came before us was the trade union, an organisation that gets in the ring with the businesses that rule our lives and fights for better outcomes for us.
That is why you should join a trade union, for yourself, your life, for your colleagues and your colleagues lives and our children's lives
As ADN is just a non-profit organisation aimed at helping dental nurses to become better represented by trade unions, we hope that you will join, 'Unite the Union', on our behalf. If/when you do join Unite, please click here to fill out our contact form and send us your membership number. This way they will know that ADN sent you and it might help us to become an associate of Unite which will help us to better represent dental nurses for years to come.
Unite Contact Page: https://www.unitetheunion.org/contact-us/
If you have any other questions about joining a union, please reply to this post.
Very well explained we all need someone to watch out backs.