Us v Them (Union Busting and other suppression of Labour)

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Good news for a change.

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https://archive.ph/lNNe3

These workers should consider a nationwide walkout. It would cripple the economy.

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That a union can just be disbanded like that must indeed be devastating. And hopefully, as you implied, enraging, in a unifying way.

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There needs to be a nationwide general strike over this.

Immediately!

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https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2025/april/unite-leader-sharon-graham-s-response-to-angela-rayner-birmingham-comments

UK government position on this dispute- “could you please just let your pay be cut by £8,000?” And the BBC is being its usual bootlicking self and not giving any context for the dispute that might show the workers’ position fairly.

And as always, if you probe deeper, then you just find even more layers of incompetence from the government.

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Unions are standing up for their own.

“We’re the building trades, the backbone of America. You want to build a five billion dollar data center?..You don’t call Elon Musk, you call us!..All of us! Including our SMART apprentice Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who we demand to be returned to us and his family now!”

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