Why do the unions waste their members' money on New Labour?
It is now siding with the use of deunionised, and therefore low-cost, competitors to threaten with the sack the unionised workforce of what was once a publicly owned company, and which retains the word "British" in its name (as well as a very cosy relationship with several Departments of State), unless they give up their fight against reduced conditions. Unite controls this Government? Yer what! This Government believes that Unite members in such a company should count themselves lucky to have better conditions than obtain in rival, including foreign-owned, companies with no unions at all.
Can we find someone in Birmingham capable of taking on Jack Dromey as a truly worthy successor to Robin Corbett, the Eurosceptical campaigner for agriculture, manufacturing and civil liberties? Whatever, don't vote for Dromey, thereby teaching the unions a lesson: get back to what you are for, which is not funnelling cash to an essentially enemy political phenomenon in order to secure safe seats for those of your full-time, professional functionaries who have barely set foot on a shop floor in their lives and who happen to be married to David Cameron's cousins.
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I think they must be clinging to a hope that something can be salvaged from the relationship from the Labour Party. Else the Unite leadership agree with the anti union sentiments of people like Adonis.
ReplyDeleteMy union as well!