They want a fight with the Labour Party and a public one and I fear are using this to further those national aims.
Much like scargill became beating thatcher and vice versa
Yes Sharon GrahamDo you know any leading figures in the union to justify that claim?
Yes Sharon Graham
Keir Starmer blasts Unite boss over 'threats' to cut Labour funding
Sir Keir Starmer warned "I'm not going to be challenged" after Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham said the union will slash funding if Labour fails to back bin workers on strike over pay in Coventrywww.mirror.co.uk
They should ask him rather than threaten the Labour PartyYou know her personally? All I want to know is what Starmer really thinks. As usual though he just sits on the fence and refuses to give his real opinion
I still don't get why the Union aren't being very clear about it all as it doesn't match up with evos issue?
The agenda is to get better pay and conditions for their members.And it was more the leadership of the union maybe had an agenda
That’s the members . Are you really blind to unite wanting to position itself as the powerful union with national influence?The agenda is to get better pay and conditions for their members.
That’s the members . Are you really blind to unite wanting to position itself as the powerful union with national influence?
Nope I think we are on the same side here. I’m saying I feel that the union are using the individual coventry members for their own political aims. Evo has said they have won some cases with other councils so that might go against what I’m saying.Are you suggesting that Unite is under any obligation to continue to make donations to the Labour (sic) party?
Nope I think we are on the same side here. I’m saying I feel that the union are using the individual coventry members for their own political aims. Evo has said they have won some cases with other councils so that might go against what I’m saying.
Maybe not mate. I may be taking 2 and 2 and getting 5Are the two things even linked? Unite were talking about potentially reducing the size of its political donation well before anything happened in Coventry as has been an ongoing debate in Labour affiliated unions for years.
Maybe not mate. I may be taking 2 and 2 and getting 5
Drivers in Plymouth got a 12.5% rise.Duggins was on CWR this morning. Initally about the City but then they moved onto the bin strike.
As a Labour stalwart and head of the council he appeared adamant no more movement. Spoke of the 4 day week currently worked and said offered Plymouths terms whatever those are and was perplexed at what was wanted. Worth a listen whether you agree with him or not if you can get it online. He said if they get new grades to enable further increases (assume banded pay?) then it would have to apply across other council functions and that would cost council £30m. He also spoke of not wanting redundancies but didn't rule it out. Can't remember much else and don't want to misquote, but basically said his responsibility was to people of City and not the strikers.
Drivers in Plymouth got a 12.5% rise.
The poor lambs.
The teaching union are pushing now for 8% and I suspect will strike if they do not get it - which they will not. A middle class profession and they want a 8% rise with all the public sector benefits. The government has to be brutal and call their bluff.
The teaching union are pushing now for 8% and I suspect will strike if they do not get it - which they will not. A middle class profession and they want a 8% rise with all the public sector benefits. The government has to be brutal and call their bluff.
I do however wonder why people join a union not to vote. Surely by joining you're engaged in some way to do so! I mean, even if it's voting against strike action, at least vote!I mean I have literally referred to this multiple times and have been on the meetings where this has been discussed.
If you want the truth the union hasn’t got anything like the turnout required to support a strike ballot, at least not in this region. Which actually is just down to rank disorganisation in a good number of schools not even having reps
I do however wonder why people join a union not to vote. Surely by joining you're engaged in some way to do so! I mean, even if it's voting against strike action, at least vote!
I do however wonder why people join a union not to vote. Surely by joining you're engaged in some way to do so! I mean, even if it's voting against strike action, at least vote!
Duggins was on CWR this morning. Initally about the City but then they moved onto the bin strike.
As a Labour stalwart and head of the council he appeared adamant no more movement. Spoke of the 4 day week currently worked and said offered Plymouths terms whatever those are and was perplexed at what was wanted. Worth a listen whether you agree with him or not if you can get it online. He said if they get new grades to enable further increases (assume banded pay?) then it would have to apply across other council functions and that would cost council £30m. He also spoke of not wanting redundancies but didn't rule it out. Can't remember much else and don't want to misquote, but basically said his responsibility was to people of City and not the strikers.
Did you hear the disparaging way he said Coventry? Fk me he's not done well there and I'm not even a supporter of his, if I was I think I'd be furious.
Weird change of tone
Did you hear the disparaging way he said Coventry? Fk me he's not done well there and I'm not even a supporter of his, if I was I think I'd be furious.
Did you hear the disparaging way he said Coventry? Fk me he's not done well there and I'm not even a supporter of his, if I was I think I'd be furious.
Did you hear the disparaging way he said Coventry? Fk me he's not done well there and I'm not even a supporter of his, if I was I think I'd be furious.
It’s the tone of someone that doesn’t give a fuck. Welcome to his Labour Party.
Weird change of tone
It’s the tone of someone that doesn’t give a fuck. Welcome to his Labour Party.
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