Comments on: Lindsey dispute: in defence of wildcat strikes

By: Mark P

Mark P — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:35:37 +0000

Socialist Party report on victory at Total. It appears that all strikers have been reinstated, and that the workers who were originally made redundant will be offered jobs.

http://socialistparty.org.uk/latest/7482

By: Jim Denham

Jim Denham — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:58:06 +0000

“Heck, it might just be worth putting the real business of beating each other up over theoretical disputes on hold for the duration.”

Hear, hear, Dave!

I was about to write something very similar at “Shiraz” but you beat me to it.

By: Scratch

Scratch — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:18:09 +0000

One notes the near complete lack of coverage of this issue on the rest of the left sites linked to from here.

Fancy that.

By: Geoff Collier

Geoff Collier — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:29:29 +0000

My former MP (Alan Johnson) was on the radio today criticising the strikers for going outside the law. Given that the original purpose of the Labour party was to remove anti-union laws, this is surely some kind of sick joke. I wonder what you can tell us about your attempts to change your party’s policy on this question. Was your motion well received at the ward or constituency meetings?

By: Scratch

Scratch — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:52:33 +0000

Heck, it might just be worth putting the real business of beating each other up over theoretical disputes on hold for the duration.

Oh, I don’t know…

Total’s nakedly nasty move makes its intention absolutely clear. Shop stewards, troublemakers, lippy bastards and/or anyone with minimal self-respect need not apply. What we are seeing is the return of hardline, back-to-the-eighties, management’s right to manage old skool union busting, pure and simple.

One difference between now and then was the faux left hadn’t done half the bosses work for them by delegitimising the strikers in advance.