Britain: trade unions in talks with the Conservative Party

[Zurdito]

Devrim will especially enjoy this as I remember him saying he used to know Billy Hayes. who ironically used to pose a left-winger.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4727865.ece

[Devrim]

To clarify, I met Billy once at a meeting of the UCW (as it was then) Broad Left in Lambeth Town Hall. I was selling the paper of the left in the Post Office, Communication Worker (this was quite a successful publication. In the period leading up to the '89 national strike we had sales of nearly 8,000 per issue). He told me that the more copies of that rag you sell, the more irrelevant you will become.

Obviously, he was right. He is now a union boss, and I am still a worker.

I think he was a member of Militant, but I am not 100% certain.

Devrim

[Yehuda Stern]

I think he was a member of Militant, but I am not 100% certain.

Sure sounds the part.

[spartan]

If ever you needed confirmation that things on the trade union front have gotten bad in Britain...:(

[Goose]

If there are real trade union activists on here, specifically public sector related, will they get in touch please. I realise I've now been banned for both my job (apparently I made it up) and my politics (apparently baiting pro- American capitalists is wrong)

But on a very much smaller than The Guardian level I would be happy to publicise ALL public sector disputes, from a quick news story about a local action, extending to a 1,200 word interviews/bylined rant about exactly why the world is going tits up. It's a national magazine, and it's read by people of relevance.

As long as I don't get banned again for being non-party line, or picking on Republicans as the US election goes on.

PM me, unionists only, it's not an invite for loads of arse.