Crisis management, dirty tactics
The idea that you can't take on multinational capitalism and win has been given a boost by the outcome at Grangemouth.
We'll never know for sure whether the threat to close the petrochemical plant was real or not. But Grangemouth's local boss, Calum MacLean, gave us an insight into owners Ineos's game plan when he claimed that if Unite "had taken the position they took in the last two days [to accept the 'survival plan'] a week ago we might never have come to this".