It should be obvious by now that if the workers play by the bosses rules, we will always lose. Two recent disputes highlight this, showing once again that direct action by the workers gets results. This from The Commune
The wildly different trajectories of two
recent industrial disputes provides us with an almost perfect lesson
in both how they can be won and how they are generally lost. In both
cases, the workers were members of the Unite union, as are around
three million others in the UK, and in both cases the industry
concerned was what might be called a ‘blue collar’ one. But one
won, and is winning, while another lost badly.
The ‘threat’ of a one day stoppage by oil haulage drivers
gripped the ruling class just over two months ago, when Unite
announced that 69% of respondents had voted for strike action over
worsening working conditions and pensions raids. The media went into
a frenzy of contrived scaremongering, and the government – sensing
what a Tory memo called a “Thatcher moment” – went on the
attack. Infamously, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude told
motorists to store “a little bit in the garage as well in a
jerrycan”, even though Unite had not named a strike date, and they
had to give seven days of notice under the anti-union laws.
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