Vote for a person,the only person who can keep our union together and stand up to employers,Sharon Graham,not a Cockney wide-boy. She is a tough negotiator and has said "Unite will not be a branch of the Labour Party".
Unity is strength! There is power in a union (like the marriage relationship of man and woman)not in a multi-millionaire lawyer and a windbag and decentraliser who is in an invidious relationship at one remove from liberals like Blair and privatisers of public utilities into bogus self-employment. Brown tried to do that with refuse collection, disposal and recycling.
Better together 😜
18.8.2021
It is clear if craftworker and semi-skilled and general worker and docker are to remain United under the Unite umbrella as One Big Voice for Labour with hand,mind and body we must not pursue what the great labour leaders like Connolly,Marx,Keir Hardie and Tillet called "sectional interests" or what Russians and Germans call "sectarian interests" located only in a time and place and devoid of any general interest.
Forward with Labour!
27.8.2021
Internationalism
The key to reviving the labour movement lies not alone in the most advanced societies but rather also in the periphery of Africa and Asia.
The revival of trade unionism in Britain
In terms of reunionising the building trade in England,the future lies in exposing bogus self-employment and blacklisting building trade gangsters, Irish agency employers and their London Irish Club friends and their colleçtive connections to the Police National Computer and the MI5 harem.
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6.1.2022
As a wayward, indecisive, dissolute law student, my opinion on Thatcher's labour proposals were sought by my tutor of labour law. I,in my proposals,had the good sense to turn the screws on beer-swilling miners, rabble-rousers and indolent people such as Billy Hull of the Loyalist Workers Council and sectarian bigots in tiny leftwing groups and sole traders not paying tax such as loyalists and Provos. I asked for receipts for goods and services purchased, making myself very unpopular in the process. My innovation?. I suggested that the Electoral Reform Society supervise union and Labour Party elections and private concerns pay for their own security during disputes with trade unions and communities.
However,it is clear that labour organisation is now too tightly regulated by the Department of Finance and Health sub-committee at Stormont.
The response to employer inflexibility and growing sectarian dissent and political unrest,not to mention environmental degradation and NHS waste,is to vote for labour candidates with a proven track record who are real fighters,not ciphers for police and army. Most political parties believe in a constant cycle of personal attrition and internecine conflict in Northern Ireland.
Does that explain my rather conservative, mainstream proposals,often rewarded by success but by neither money nor reputation nor acclaim particularly as regards my fateful ventures outside my native country to find employment.
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7.1.2022
The closed shop and secondary action? Burning issues of our times.
My approach in the final year(s) of my legal studies to questioning as to 'bright-spark' opinions on labour law reforms was that it was a case of 'all.or nothing' as regards union recognition and a closed shop (the US system). This brings undercover police and plainclothes soldiers into the unions since they monitor workplace representation with a view to isolating some people. The closed shop is an anachronism unless we want detectives in our soup.The American system is not for Britain.
The question of solidarity action is fraught with difficulties. This practice has the potential to lead to lawlessness and crime unless it is undertaken in-house in a big industrial combine,effective monopoly or highly-focussed multinational whose legal status is that of a trust or benevolently-owned organisation or state business with no pretensions. By a state business I mean the NHS.
The focus of trade unions in the building trade,industry and trades or crafts ince 1952 in England should have been bogus self- employment,the isolation of anyone who was an industrious shop steward and the discounting of the employee's net income against the employer's tax liability and national insurance contributions.This is the great historical iniquity which the Shrewsbury pickets tried to put right. They couldn't find their way to their political target and were harassed by police.
But I digress,can not the trade union movement distance itself from those who have nothing of relevance to say such as Ken Livingstone and are past their best. Can we not endeavour to politically roll back the tide of bogus sell-offs, privatisations and fraudulent public housing sales. Unions should invest more money in the real well-being of workers particularly in the North of Ireland,by funding political representation.
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31.3.2022
While barristers and politicians in the 1980's talked a lot of nonsense about the obvious judicial eccentricities of one Lord Denning,it must be remembered that in the AUEW Case (1974/1978) he firmly established the doctrine of the culprit or culprits in RESTRAINT OF TRADE cases having to compensate their hapless victim(s) for loss of earnings. He unwittingly allowed victims of police,academic and medical blacklistting to claim compensation for loss of earnings. Only a mischief-maker such as David Hopley Q.C. or other half-schooled legal novice would claim otherwise.
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2.4.2022
How have the police denied employment to active trade unionists and choked the life-blood out of organised labour?
It is through the Police National Computer and police tracking the location of labour activists through the DHSS centralised social security records system.
The police and MI5 have throttled industry and political debate and consigned British industry and democracy to the scrapheap. The police thoroughly deserved their fate in Northern Ireland between 1971 and 2011.
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8.6.2022
Solidarity action
Flying pickets and secondary action?
Definitely! The throttling of Dutch industry in 1948, US and Australian decay after 1968, the end of the aggiornamento in 1972, Britain's industrial decline after 1978, Germany's industrial decline after 1981,France's decline after 1992 and Ireland's real-time industrial decay after 2001 all point towards the unhappy conclusion that when there is intolerance to labour organisation and the democratic process from right-wing extremists such as the police and where there are legal restrictions and police blacklistting,a country very soon hits the rocks. In terms of looking to Communists and self-styled socialists for leadership,they are about as welcome in labour circles as a whore at a wedding. It is only the working people who produce the wealth of society that can rescue a society. They produce the wealth,not spoofers on the margins of the trade union movement or the police or the political spokesmen of big business.
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