D.P.
We are familiar with " union busting "here in the U.K.
You may be aware of an ex-prime minister of ours called Margaret Thatcher, a big pal of your Reagan, who made it her mission to slaughter the British trade union movement which prior to her becoming p.m wielded great power on behalf of working people.
She famously provoked a strike by our miners whose union she rightly saw as the one to go for, in the belief that if she beat them she could beat any union.
A general strike by all unions should have been instigated, but to its disgrace and shame, the unions' organising council, the TUC, left the miners to fight alone...and Thatcher crushed them.
Following on from that, all manner of draconian anti-labour legislation was enacted, emasculating the trade unions.
Worse still, union leaders continued to lay down before the Thatcher juggernaut and no help was on hand from the Labour Party, the party formed by the trade unions to give them a political voice at the highest level, but which got dragged rightwards under successive career politician leaders, Kinnock, Smith, Blair, Brown and now Miliband.
The public sector unions are striking this very week over attacks on pay and pensions being proposed by the current coalition government of Liberals and Conservatives. You would have hoped they would be getting support from the opposition Labour Party, but sadly it is continuing its reluctance to support its own supporters by cautioning against the action.
The only bit of good news here is that Thatcher, the evil one, is very ill and expected to die pretty soon. Bring it on!
Sorry if I've gone a bit off topic, but the hurt is quite deep.
Thanks for your insight into your travails!
We are familiar with " union busting "here in the U.K.
You may be aware of an ex-prime minister of ours called Margaret Thatcher, a big pal of your Reagan, who made it her mission to slaughter the British trade union movement which prior to her becoming p.m wielded great power on behalf of working people.
She famously provoked a strike by our miners whose union she rightly saw as the one to go for, in the belief that if she beat them she could beat any union.
A general strike by all unions should have been instigated, but to its disgrace and shame, the unions' organising council, the TUC, left the miners to fight alone...and Thatcher crushed them.
Following on from that, all manner of draconian anti-labour legislation was enacted, emasculating the trade unions.
Worse still, union leaders continued to lay down before the Thatcher juggernaut and no help was on hand from the Labour Party, the party formed by the trade unions to give them a political voice at the highest level, but which got dragged rightwards under successive career politician leaders, Kinnock, Smith, Blair, Brown and now Miliband.
The public sector unions are striking this very week over attacks on pay and pensions being proposed by the current coalition government of Liberals and Conservatives. You would have hoped they would be getting support from the opposition Labour Party, but sadly it is continuing its reluctance to support its own supporters by cautioning against the action.
The only bit of good news here is that Thatcher, the evil one, is very ill and expected to die pretty soon. Bring it on!
Sorry if I've gone a bit off topic, but the hurt is quite deep.
Thanks for your insight into your travails!
A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
