Dr. Deirdre Curran:

I do not want to take Ms Marciniak's time because she is the hardest working advocate for hospitality workers in the country. One question I asked workers was why they do not join a trade union. The most common reasons related to the fact they did not know there were unions relevant to hospitality and to the fear of speaking out. In the case of most people in hospitality I have talked to, if something bad happens, they talk to nobody, never mind going looking for a union. Worse than that is apathy; they have a fear that nothing will change, so they do not bother speaking to anybody.