Chameleon Magazine

 🏗️💼While public-sector unions shout from every podium, Britain’s private-sector workforce — the people who actually generate the wealth — are left on mute. It’s time that changed.

⚙️ Private Workers of Britain, Unite — You Literally Pay for Everything

Let’s get one thing straight: if you’ve ever had to hit a sales target, innovate to survive, or stay solvent long enough to meet payroll, you’re not just a cog in the economy — you are the economy.

And yet, Britain’s current union landscape treats you like the unwashed cousin at a royal wedding. Why? Because public-sector unions have rigged the table. They negotiate with other people’s money (yours), they never face bankruptcy, and their idea of “risk” is running out of printer ink. Meanwhile, you’re out here dodging AI layoffs, managing cash flow, and praying your supplier doesn’t go belly-up in Q4.

But the kicker? While you’re doing all that, you’re also paying for their pensions.

That’s right. The same gold-plated pensions and triple-lock job security that would bankrupt your company in a heartbeat? You fund them. Through taxes. While getting none of the perks.

This isn’t class warfare. It’s class gaslighting.

What we need is a Private Sector Workers’ Union — one that actually understands how the modern economy works. One that fights for people who don’t get “cost-of-living adjustments” handed to them by MPs desperate to avoid Daily Mail headlines.

Because the truth is brutal:

🛑 If a government office closes, nothing in Tesco changes.

🛑 If a logistics hub collapses, you won’t get your prescription, your dinner, or your damn Christmas jumper.

Yet somehow, it’s the state workers who get the halo, the headlines, and the hashtag activism.

Enough.

The current model is broken, and the balance of power is laughably lopsided. If you make your living by actually producing value, you should have a union that gets it — and fights like hell for it.

No more subsidising a political fantasy where “growth” means hiring another 30,000 compliance officers. No more playing economic Sherpa for a public sector that thinks it’s a sacred cow instead of a cost centre.

It’s time for a union that doesn’t think profit is a sin, risk is optional, or taxpayers are magical money trees.

🔥 Challenges 🔥

Are you a private-sector worker who’s tired of footing the bill and getting none of the credit? Or do you think the public sector deserves every penny — and then some? Either way, we want your take. Let the sparks fly in the blog comments (not just Facebook — we see you, lurkers 👀).