The right to work, to earn enough for a decent life without excessive hours of work, is an elementary right to which every worker is entitled, especially in an age when technology has the potential of creating abundance for all. The fight of the UCS workers was a battle not only for their own jobs but for every worker concerned about the future prospects for himself and his family. It was a battle against the Tory policy of creating unemployment as a weapon to force down the living standards of every worker, in or out of a job.