Oh the irony of it. Over a hundred years ago the Labour party was formed from various groups of activists, out to improve the lot of the oppressed workers.
One of the basic rights they fought for was the right to strike, the right to remove the workers labour from the workplace if an agreement could not be reached.
But now that right is to be removed, if a deal can not be reached.
Now from a Labour government we have this: ...will reintroduce powers to ban strikes by prison officers in England and Wales, months after a surprise walkout by 20,000 staff. Justice Secretary Jack Straw said he had "no alternative" but to seek reserve powers, if a voluntary no-strike deal cannot be reached.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw said he had "no alternative" but to seek reserve powers, if a voluntary no-strike deal cannot be reached.
He said powers were needed to protect public safety and prisoners' welfare.
Just when you think that there is nothing, not one more reason for you to despise this government they prove you wrong and find it.
It was this government who did one of the few things that they ever did right and repealed the previous law that the Tories had put in banning their right to strike. Now was Blunkett just taking the piss when he said he was laying the order restoring trade union rights so that prison officers "can see that we are taking seriously the promise that was made".
So brothers you have the right to strike, well unless you want to strike under a Labour government in which case we shall bring back previous Tory legislation.
I wonder what the unions make of this? Will we be hearing complaints from the TUC and others over the rights of UK workers being removed or are the unions now so closely inter weaved with Labour that they will turn their backs on their own members.
This shows how far the Labour party has removed itself from the working man and woman. Maybe had a Labour government been around at the time they would have banned the Bryant and May strike that took place in 1888, had a voluntary no-strike deal not been reached...
Tags: strikes, new labour, fuckwittery
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You want to embarrass Labour?
Ask them about making political capital out of giving GCHQ, one of the worlds most sensitive data gathering and intelligence gathering establishments, the right to strike against a refusal to do so by the Tories.
The point is that everyone is supposed in a democracy to be the same, have the same rights etc etc. So one would think that the Labour party with its history based in the struggle of worker v capital would ensure that all had that basic right of being able to remove their labour from the workplace.
The left are for the common man, the worker, for keeping them common, working and poor that is.
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