The following article was written by an active trade unionist, working-class militant and supporter of The Other Campaign.
I have been a postal worker since 1980 and have stood on every picket line during every strike we have been involved in.
All through the 1980s and 1990s the talk on picket lines (once the football was got out of the way) was how things would improve for the working class once a Labour Government replaced the Conservatives. Hadn’t our Trade Union General Secretaries Tom Jackson, Alan Tuffin and Alan Johnson repeatedly told us so in an endless stream of UPW/UCW/CWU literature?
There was quite a bit of hope in the air when the Labour Party won the 1997 General Election. After all, hadn’t we members of Trade Unions funded the victory? Surely the Labour Party would look after us?
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http://theothercampaign2010.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/whatever-happened-to-the-unions/
All through the 1980s and 1990s the talk on picket lines (once the football was got out of the way) was how things would improve for the working class once a Labour Government replaced the Conservatives. Hadn’t our Trade Union General Secretaries Tom Jackson, Alan Tuffin and Alan Johnson repeatedly told us so in an endless stream of UPW/UCW/CWU literature?
There was quite a bit of hope in the air when the Labour Party won the 1997 General Election. After all, hadn’t we members of Trade Unions funded the victory? Surely the Labour Party would look after us?
Read the rest of the article here...
http://theothercampaign2010.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/whatever-happened-to-the-unions/
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Join a workers union...duh!
17.04.2010 17:13
The I.W.W. is a workers-only union and doesn't accept membership from management or anyone else who follows a different agenda to the majority of ordinary working people. In other words, there's no chance of the I.W.W. becoming corrupted/subverted, as so many of our unions now are, by those who would profit from your misery!
Join a real workers union. Join the I.W.W!
M
IWW
17.04.2010 20:36
Other
Wibbly Wobbley
18.04.2010 18:11
Because indymedia isn't just bookmarked by the middle class. Or is it?
Wibbly
question
18.04.2010 22:06
Not a Wibbly
North Prole
19.04.2010 10:41
Love the other campaign too.
Spartacus