ooh Gordon the unions are revolting

[papa smurf]

From The Sunday Times
March 28, 2010
BA strikers to give Gordon Brown ‘a kicking’


THE LEADER of the militants behind the British Airways cabin crew strikes yesterday said he wanted to give Gordon Brown a “good kicking� by embarking on further industrial action in the run-up to the election.

In his first interview since the start of the strike, Duncan Holley, the branch secretary of the British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (Bassa), said there was “a lot of anger� at the government for failing to support their action.


you send all that wonga to liebour and then they kick you in the teeth when you call in the favor and ask for backing
well gordo your troops are revolting

[Ignitionnet]

This is just the beginning too it would seem.

Oh well, assuming Gordon, et al, are voted out they'll no doubt be blaming the Tories for the damage the unions they both depend on so strongly financially and emboldened yet again will be doing to the economy.

[Osem]

Yes well they like to blame other people don't they and aren't renowed for their honesty - we just get denial, refusal, broken promises and policies/initiatives which are quietly dropped or forgotten about having cost ££££s....

Just like the long suffering taxpayer, the unions don't appear to have had good value for their money from New Labour.

[Sirius]

Personally i feel the Unions have done us voters a big favour.

Those unions coming out on strike now so close to an election and disrupting voters lives have and will do more damage to Labour than we could have ever dreamt about.

Well done the unions for fighting the Tory corner

[Ignitionnet]

Sadly they are only fighting their own corner so are stashing away money in order to give the Tories grief should they get elected.

Outdated, militant institutions with no place in modern society, at very least in their current form. Totally indifferent to all the people they shaft when they stomp their foot over their members, who nearly always have far better conditions, pay, etc, than non-unionised workers, being brought to the same levels of compensation and conditions as everyone else.

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Sadly they are only fighting their own corner so are stashing away money in order to give the Tories grief should they get elected.

Outdated, militant institutions with no place in modern society, at very least in their current form. Totally indifferent to all the people they shaft when they stomp their foot over their members, who nearly always have far better conditions, pay, etc, than non-unionised workers, being brought to the same levels of compensation and conditions as everyone else.

[Xaccers]

Labour are going to lose the election, the unions know that.
If they can show that part of the reason was the lack of support Labour gave the unions they can blackmail nextlabour that they'll never get back into power unless they become the unions poodle.
Labour are also going to be more desperate for the unions funds, and so more likely to work for them.

I was reading an article in a paper recently, that members of Unite (I think it was) where looking their union to switch support from Liebour to the Tories.... Now wouldn't that be hilarious if true.

[Osem]

Well something's going to have to give soon. Win, lose or draw the election, Brown and his cohorts are going to be exposed for the damage they've caused, many jobs will be lost and no doubt their union paymasters will realise just how they've been ripped off.

I still don't think some people fully appreciate what's going to have to be done and how, contrary to the usual spin, it won't be the rich, the privileged and the bankers who suffer most. Ordinary people from the poor and vulnerable upwards are going to pay heavily for New Labour's failure and when they do they'll realise how they've been misled by the party of lies and spin yet again! All that rhetoric about making the rich pay more, getting tough with the bankers, painless efficiency savings etc. etc. is all so much cynical hot air...

Eeeh use do waffle on

[TheNorm]

Originally Posted by Osem

... it won't be the rich, the privileged and the bankers who suffer most. ...

It never is.

Apart from during the French revolution, I suppose. And the reign of the Khmer Rouge.

[Charlie_Bubble]

Is it me, or are the more militant unions run by people from either Liverpool or Glasgow?

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

Is it me, or are the more militant unions run by people from either Liverpool or Glasgow?

northernist

[Charlie_Bubble]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

northernist

The fact I'm a northerner means I can't be northernist.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

The fact I'm a northerner means I can't be northernist.

or if your best friend is a northener