Posted on 09/11/2011 2:00:39 PM PDT by SanFranDan
The leader of Britain's biggest trade union today issued a stark warning to the Government that 'continued attacks' on workers' pay, jobs and pensions will provoke unrest.
Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, said it was little wonder that working people were standing up for their rights in the face of the "abuse" they were having to deal with.
He spoke ahead of this week's TUC Congress, which opens in London tomorrow, when calls will be made for co-ordinated industrial action against the government's public sector pension reforms.
Civil servants and teachers held a one-day strike in June and further action is being planned for November, possibly involving a huge number of workers.
Mr McCluskey said: "All that this country has held dear for 65 years - education for all, our NHS, decent jobs and pensions in retirement, a future for our kids - is under attack.
"It is under attack by a government with no mandate and a feral ruling class that is being allowed to duck its duty to society.
"This abuse of the struggling many by the cushioned, untouchable few is causing division and stoking anger - little wonder that working people will be forced to stand up and defend what is rightfully theirs.
"Unite rejects the dogma of despair and fear peddled by this government. Let's explode some of the myths surrounding the poison government is spreading on public sector pensions. These are not gold-plated CEOs of FTSE 100 companies.
"These are dinner ladies who if they are lucky will earn a pension of £4,000 ($80,000/yr) and this government is planning to slash this further still.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Dinner ladies get 80K?
Wow! I thought we had issues here in the states.
WTF is a dinner lady?
I have a plan,
Lame as English manufacturing was, lets put people to work building Vincent motorcycles, pouring Sheffield steel.
I still buy sheffield steel. it freakin rocks.
I dont understand what happened to british pride.
Unions are the proxy army in what is a new form of civil war. The regimes can’t count on the conservative militaries to thwart the people, so instead they have to use brownshirt union thugs, anarchists and illegals to enforce their welfare state. I write about this extensively in “Surviving Civil War II”. http://www.futurnamics.com/civilwar.php
As the Eurozone collapses and the dollar eventually follows, we are forced into a low grade civil war over the socialists attempt to impose debt slavery on our children.
The muslims will crush the Union workers and eat their kids .
With UK support and understanding.
Unions are the proxy army in what is a new form of civil war. The regimes can’t count on the conservative militaries to thwart the people, so instead they have to use brownshirt union thugs, anarchists and illegals to enforce their welfare state. I write about this extensively in “Surviving Civil War II”. http://www.futurnamics.com/civilwar.php
As the Eurozone collapses and the dollar eventually follows, we are forced into a low grade civil war over the socialists attempt to impose debt slavery on our children.
The muslims will crush the Union workers and eat their kids .
With UK support and understanding.
“Lunch lady is an American slang term for a woman who cooks and serves food in a school cafeteria”
(I had to look it up)
I got nothin against school lunch ladies, but 80K a year retirement?!!
In the pecking order of who will attack us, the brownshirt union thugs will have to get in line behind the Black rioters, the screaming welfare masses, Obama’s “army”, the anarchists, the death-obsessed Muslims and the millions of illegals intent of stealing very last tidbit Americans own. Hopefully they will all kill each other off before they get around to just ordinary Americans. The one thing they all have in common is hatred of hard-working patriotic Americans.
Post #10. “very” should be “every”
You taxpayers gotta cough up the protection money for us union thugs (or else).
From the article, quoting Mr. McCluskey:What kind of banking changes are they debating over there. Sounds like they are trying to re-implement something like Glass-Stegall in Great Britain, separating investment banking from commercial banking. I'm not sure exactly how that's working over there, or what the ramifications are.
"So, we rule nothing in or nothing out. From civil disobedience to industrial action, this is the moment we defend what is decent and fair."
Apparently the union goons think it threatens their government pensions.
“So, we rule nothing in or nothing out. From civil disobedience to industrial action, this is the moment we defend what is decent and fair.”
Translation: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Your guess is as good as main as to the attack order, I’m just saying they are uncoventional forces being used to fight for the regime and status quo.
4,000 pounds is only $6,340 us. Not 80,000
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