Len McCluskey Unite

michaels

You see I think everyone has got it all wrong.

If you are an Italien bond trader you are expected to benefit from the external market environment - Italy has lots of bonds maturing and needs to borrow a lot? Time to raise the borrowing rate not time to 'put the national interest first'.

For the city, letting the market decide is derigour and yet for unions to spot that they have some market pricing power due to circumstances and try to exploit it is deemed unpatriotic. Different rules for different folks?

sheffield_lad

Notice the SCUM (Unite), are at it again this time tanker drivers. Ummmm so its any industry were they try to bring the country to its Knees nice. Good old Len, who needs sovereign debt, bankers, and a recession when we have Len the peoples champion only he does not give a dam about anyone bar his members absolute SCUM

grizzly1911

howee wrote: »

Len the peoples champion only he does not give a dam about anyone bar his members absolute SCUM

Funnily enough that is what he is paid to do - look after his members.

No different to Ozzy looking after his friends and lining himself up some nice little number when his time runs out.

KrytenIceCubeHead

Isn't it wonderful that we have the Conservatives in power to protect us from these evil Unions!

A._Badger

KrytenIceCubeHead wrote: »

Isn't it wonderful that we have the Conservatives in power to protect us from these evil Unions!

Well let's hope they can because the opposition are glove puppets for these union trots.

By the way, in case anyone believes the tanker drivers' dispute isn't a political act, I've got a bridge they might be interested in...

sheffield_lad

I see the Unite SCUM are at it again with a ballot for bus drivers with Unite wanting bus drivers in London to have a £500 bonus during the Olympics for errrr doing their usual job.

Same old Unite SCUM message, wait for an opportunity to disrupt the country for maximum potential with no care for the drivers just for political means grrrr.

paddyrg

Strikes etc now are really playing into the Conservative extremists hands. We spent money we didn't have, so now we have to balance the books, and throwing a strop about it won't help.

I used to have more sympathy with the unions, I thought Thatcher was a monster, now I see her point. People can only take so much whining about how hard done by he is from someone earning THREE TIMES what the Prime Minister earns.

With the coalition, the PM can't take the hard line many conservatives would like to be taking. Nobody is in a rush to return to poorhouses etc., so don't push things too far which will end up with a big showdown, government backed into a corner and likely to elect a hard-liner. That hard-liner like Thatcher will then have to destroy the unions against the interests of the majority of their members.

N1AK

For all the hassles Unions can cause I'm still a believer that their existence, and the inability of the government to dominate them, is beneficial to the country overall.

That said the trend towards using strike actions to target events to cause maximum disruption appears to be comparatively recent. I doubt even the people who gave the Unions the right to strike intended for it to be used to extort money in this way. I would think there would be considerable report for amending the strike laws to allow companies/governments to delay or pull forward strikes if they can show that they are timed to cause maximum disruption.

Ultimately the right to strike is a privilege granted by the government (effectively without that right people could be fired for not attending work) and allowing it to be so blatantly abused is not in the national interest.

Thrugelmir

N1AK wrote: »

That said the trend towards using strike actions to target events to cause maximum disruption appears to be comparatively recent.

Recent? Was no different in the 70's.

grizzly1911

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Recent? Was no different in the 70's.

Huddling round a candle, in a cut out baked bean tin, as the miners strike meant no electricity for lighting or anything else..

Three day working week.....