Unison - What the hell are they playing at?

Below I have copied part of a story on Unison giving money to the Palestinians, now as someone who worked for a company where they were active that really does piss me off. The job of a union is not world politics, or righting the wrongs of the middle east, but to look after their membership that pays the union reps wages.

As Unison has in my view done a piss poor job on stopping the flood of callcentre (and many other jobs in other sectors) to India, China and other places abroad, I am amazed they can find the time to help another society when their members are being replaced by workers on low wages abroad.

When I brought up several ideas on how to stop the removal of jobs from the UK(I worked in the finance trade previously) to a Unison rep some time ago, and showed him facts and figures that I had taken the time to gather from both within my former employers company and off the internet to prove my many points on how the company was not providing all the facts to both staff and customers I was met with a mixture of apathy and dis-interest.

Now that unions (and Unison is not the only union that is falling the members) are acting like this it is hardly a wonder that membership is falling, read on:

"Unison are embroiled in a scandal involving allegations that they have made donations to a front line Palestinian "charity". It is alleged that the union, which was set up to protect the rights of British public sector workers has made donations of at least £10,000 to the "givegaza" cause, a radical organisation claiming to be working to help Palestinians suffering from front line assaults, although the total amount given may never be known, as a wall of secrecy surrounds the donations.

It may come as a surprise to many members of the union to learn that money they are paying in good faith is diverted to a "charity" working in an area well renowned for daily producing suicide bombings, martyrs for the jihad and other forms of terrorism.

As the "Charity" givegaza website is permanently off line we can only speculate where the British union money has gone and for what purpose it has been used in the volatile Middle East. It also appears that this organization maintains no records available for public viewing as to what it is using the money for.

Double standards

A search on Unison’s main website fails to unearth any mention of "givegaza" or the £10,000 donation it pledged towards it, hardly surprising given the reaction that this would cause amongst its members.

Unison are constantly accusing the BNP of anti-Semitism and racism so it will be interesting to see just how these donations and their call for boycotting Jewish products sit alongside their wild and untrue accusations of the BNP being “anti-Semitic”.

Unison is a leading member of the Unite against Fascism organisation, a New Labour regime funded front that prides itself in hurling insults at the BNP, to the effect that it is an anti-Semitic racist party, disrupting meetings by phoning venue landlords threatening violence and distributing misleading and out of date information at election times about the BNP.


British workers first

It is not our place to debate the rights and wrongs of the Israeli and Palestinian situation; that is a matter for the people of that area, however it is our place to point out the double standards to voters and union members alike when union funds given by British workers are diverted to dubious overseas "charities" which admit to working on a front line military struggle, this must raise the question as to why the trade union are not putting the money in to causes which benefit the people who actually pay for them.

If you are a member of Unison and would like to know why they are giving your money to Palestinian radical causes you can contact them on 0845 355 0845

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