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RMT Annual General Meeting 2015

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RMT AGM 2015: President's address
RMT President Peter Pinkney delivers his address to the 2015 AGM in Newcastle.
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Peter expresses his displeasure with the present government.
 
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From the speeches at the RMT AGM is sounds like we can expect a complete railway system shutdown due to industrial action in the next year or two. If the government goes ahead with anti-Trades Union legislation as expected that is.
 

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From the speeches at the RMT AGM is sounds like we can expect a complete railway system shutdown due to industrial action in the next year or two. If the government goes ahead with anti-Trades Union legislation as expected that is.

Well, that being the case, it will all go to help with the current Government plans to defer works on much of the railway network. Not often you see a Trades Union going out of its way to aid and assist Conservative Party policies...:D

This seems an opportune time to quote the Basil Fawlty anti-union rant from "The Kipper and the Corpse" episode...
"Another car strike. Marvellous isn't it? The taxpayers pay them millions every year so they can go on strike. It's called Socialism. If they don't like making cars, why don't they get themselves another bloody job - designing cathedrals or composing violin concertos. That's it!! The British Leyland Concerto - in four movements, all of them slow with a four-hour tea break in-between".

Ever recall the stirring Socialist chant.."The people, united, will never be defeated". That did not seem to help the poor sods who were lifted out of the cities and towns and forcibly made to work in agricultural projects by the Pol Pot regime. There are always far worse regimes than the one you feel are oppressing you....ISIL being a very recent addition to that particular fold of nightmare state rulers.
 
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The RMT position is simple enough -
when outright war is waged against the many Trades Union they fight back without limit. Quarter is not being given and is not expected. Peter's speech is clear enough on that point.

Many will not agree with that sentiment, but it is plain enough to understand. I don't entirely subscribe to the view that this Conservative government is behaving like Pol Pot.
 

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The RMT position is simple enough -
when outright war is waged against the many Trades Union they fight back without limit. Quarter is not being given and is not expected. Peter's speech is clear enough on that point.

Many will not agree with that sentiment, but it is plain enough to understand. I don't entirely subscribe to the view that this Conservative government is behaving like Pol Pot.

Your use of the term "outright war" seems to hark back to the days of "The Iron Lady with the Handbag".

Can you tell us on this forum where and when the "outright declaration of war" against the Trades Union Movement was last made in public?

The only "outright declaration of war" by this Government was again repeated today, but that concerned those Islamic terrorists whose mentors of ISIL care nothing for human life.
 
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Remind us, which political party received the backing of the trades union that you allude to and how well did the message of that political party fare in the last General Election when they put it before the electorate where they stood?
 

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When Labour were in power did they ever repeal any of the trade union legislation introduced by the Conservatives?

Remind us, which political party received the backing of the trades union that you allude to and how well did the message of that political party fare in the last General Election when they put it before the electorate where they stood?

Both of you seem to be labouring (ho ho ho) under the illusion that Labour actually represent the interests of Union members. Due to the sad state of FPTP and the state of the Left in British politics there was no other choice but to recommend labour for purely tactical reasons: Tory-Lite is better than full-Tory.

last General Election when they put it before the electorate where they stood?

They didn't have enough of the votes that actually counted. Instead they decided to vote for the blue rinse brigade to continue receiving a pampering at the expense of the poor, sick, disabled and young
 
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Both of you seem to be labouring (ho ho ho) under the illusion that Labour actually represent the interests of Union members. Due to the sad state of FPTP and the state of the Left in British politics there was no other choice but to recommend labour for purely tactical reasons: Tory-Lite is better than full-Tory.

I would have expected better from you with your deep understanding that follows being an Aston Villa supporter.

The RMT did NOT recommend their members to support the Labour Party, but their political funding went to support a mish-mash masquerading as a throw-back extreme Socialist party. I wonder how many of their candidates saved their deposit at the last General Election.
 
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