Sunday, 12 September 2010

Drawing The Battle Lines

Trade union leaders are winding up the tension ahead of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) meeting in their bid to try and warn the government off draconian job losses in the public sector. We are hearing the first suggestions of coordinated strike action and not just from people like Bob Crow in the RMT. Mark Serwotka at the civil servants union PCS says he will be planning joint industrial action across the public sector if his pleas fall on deaf ears. It comes amid another Sunday of dribbled out stories of planned cuts this autumn. I've been asking Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband whether he will be supporting the unions if they go to strike action, he refuses to say yes to that - insisting such talk is premature. But it is clear that just because he has the backing of the big unions he is not necessarily going to back them in this confrontation.

Channel Four

Nottinghamshire County Council issues over three hundred Redundancy Notices to Managers.

The Big State is poised to strike back.

Con-Dem should have dealt with the BBC on day two

3 comments:

SumoKing said...

You just need LPUK bods to stick with the "Oh deary me all those jobsworths that won't let you send your kid to your local school, or who say computer says no when you bin is arbitrarily too full, or who take your camera off you for taking your kid's photo stood in front of a landmark or who treat you like a criminal when you suggest they may have made a mistake, won't be still getting rich off your tax money. that is a shame indeed'

Roger Thornhill said...

Union Leaders of the Bob Crow ilk protect their members even at the expense of the viability of the company that pays them. Nationalising the failing industries serves their agenda.

When it is the State that pays and the viability threatened, one presumes they have a higher power into which it will be received.

Unions, like companies or States, are a problem when they exert monopolistic power. They can rarely do so in the private sector anymore, so the State sector is their remaining stomping ground.

What is so tragic is that the Union dream is their own nightmare, if you presume Union leaders actually do want to work in the interests of their members (as in, the interests the members hold, not the interests the leadership thinks). Once you have nationalisation, once you have The International, The Pan-Nation Superstate, it will hijack/absorb/remove the leadership and the members will become clay. As always with Socialism, the little guy gets whacked. Union members will be sold out and betrayed and find that there is no other employer to flee to, no one to hire them if they are not in the union or not in the State's favour.

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