moridura Peter Curran
The teachers' strike on 30th Nov. won't hurt the UK government or dent its manic resolve - but it will hurt Scottish working mothers. STOP!
moridura Peter Curran
Scotland has two governments - one that works for Scots - the SNP - and one that doesn't - the UK. Why strike against your own side, unions?
moridura Peter Curran
The 30th Nov. strike in Scotland will hurt Scotland and Scots, but not the Coalition. This is a perversion of Scots trade union principles .
moridura Peter Curran
There are two anti-Scottish Coalitions: Cameron's Tory/LibDem one and Curran/Moore/Mundel's Coalition. They are using Scottish union members
moridura Peter Curran
Think of the political impact a delegation to Holyrood of Scottish Unions that refused to strike would have had. This strike harms Scots ...
moridura Peter Curran
Scottish union members are being manipulated by Labour FTOs for London party objectives. This strike harms Scotland and Scots only - folly.
moridura Peter Curran
Why are Scottish unions striking 30th Nov. Because their Labour FTOs demand it. Hurt a Government on their side, and other Scots - for what?
moridura Peter Curran
Renfrewshire teachers are defying the strike call on St. Andrew's Day. They were on holiday anyway ...
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Yes, the Labourites have found a cause, albeit without any real aim or practical pursuit.
ReplyDeleteThey will milk it and try and somehow blame the SNP for the Westminster bungling and financial attack.
When I say milk it, that's purely a figure of speech because it takes some small skill to milk a cow but none to make noise and appear to be what one isn't - a socialist.
Peter, on this issue I believe you are mistaken. As a teacher myself I can tell you that nobody wishes to go on strike, but colleagues feel that they have no other recourse. People are FULLY aware that the SNP Govt is against this London tax grab but is powerless to act without London taking money out of the Scottish budget.
ReplyDeleteThis is a further opportunity to highlight the urgency of full powers & contrast with Labour who on the one hand are happy to be seen on the picket line whilst opposing the very powers that would stop the Tory Govt at the border.
The purpose of a strike is to exert pressure, Traten Seer, in this case on the UK Coalition Government. In striking in Scotland, where the government supports the strikers' objectives, but is powerless to help them while the UK lasts, how exactly does this help?
ReplyDeleteIt will damage the Scottish economy at a time when the UK Tory/LibDem government - which was not elected by Scots - is doing its best to talk down Scotland's economy and actively threaten it. It will hurt the most vulnerable in Scotland, including the old and sick, and vulnerable working families with fragile economics dependent on working mothers.
This is an act of utter folly by the members who support it, but it is a calculated political act the union hierarchies who are manipulating their members for Labour party political gain and in support of the UK as an entity.
It reflect a wider problem of the structure and flawed democracy of the Scottish unions and their now poisoned links with the London-based Labour Party. While union members are opted in without their consent to a political levy for a Unionist Party that is deeply hostile to Scotland's independence, this gulf will widen, and such actions will be increasingly politicised and deeply irrelevant to the real, crying needs of Scottish tades unionists and their families.
This strike is folly for Scotland - any nationalist who supports it is deeply misguided.
Moridura
ReplyDeleteCivil Servants in Holyrood are technically part of the Home Civil Service
The Unions like FDA and PCS are not federal
The NHS is separate in Scotland but T&Cs on things like pensions are still within the stranglehold of Westminster
The NHS Unions are not federal either
Therefore in solidarity, aware of the ridiculousness of elements of the situation we strike
Labour will try and make capital of it, that's their way. Nothing positive, nothing constructive, do nothing rather than try anything
I understand your point, InsomniacAl
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