According to the "Industrial Worker", the radical syndicalist labour union's newspaper, the loss of £30 000 in wages will not only punish the protesters, but will also unjustifiyably effect their employees. Campaigners and fellow members of the IWW call for a protest on 6th of September at 9am outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh and/or to sign an online petition and/or write protest letters to the presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament. [ "Scottish Parliament to Dock IWW Members' Pay" | "The Day Democracy died" | Wikipedia on the SSP]
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It wasn't....
29.08.2005 22:13
Come on, remind everyone why the SSP were suspended. Be sure to mention how they shafted the family of the Hep sufferers.......
Boab
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30.08.2005 00:17
As far as I know The SSP parlemnt Workers were dcked pay becase they protested the fact that the rest of Scottish Parlement mostly Labor and SNP members would not allow the G8 protest or give them a Permit.
Whats this thing about the hep families?
Worker Freedom
Bullshit Boaby
30.08.2005 11:17
Never mind that the ban was hardly their decision, that their "punishment" (for not being nice polite politician-drones) was wildly OTT or that their protest was justified, given that the parliament had previously declared its support for the G8 demonstrations.
Frankly Boab's plaints are a sneaky politico's trick (if you support A then you must oppose B) and shouldn't be given any credit.
Yoor Wullie
No no no no no....
31.08.2005 19:42
Now Wullie, put doon wee Jeemy and face it. That's not quite the truth, now, is it?
See what happened was that the SNP and others had managed to organise a solid back-bench rebellion which would have seen the family of dead Hep sufferers receive sensible financial compensation from the Executive. But then our four friends in the SSP come down with their wee protest. Disrupt procedings for over an hour. Delay the debate. Get themselves banned. And what happens?
The rebellion fails by 3 votes. The Hep C families get bugger all. Game over.
Now even if we'd applied Westminster rules, the SSP would have been banned for at least a week or two. So no matter what they scuppered the debate and vote.
But they never thought of that, did they? More interested in their own wee protest. Like kids that threw the snowball and then said "oops" as the ensuing avalanche engulfed the village.
I just thinks its interesting that they don't mention this collateral damage, eh? Standing up for the downtrodden masses, eh?
Boab
and don't forget..............
01.09.2005 15:02
Norrie
I wonder
02.09.2005 15:46
Paranoid Pete
who really is to blame
05.09.2005 04:08
steve
Yeah Yeah, Steve
05.09.2005 20:42
Fact: the SSP new the vote was coming up, what was at stake, and how essential their votes were.
Fact: the SSP would have been banned from the vote ever under a lesser Westminster type punishment - the level of punishment is a red herring when considering the Hep C issue
Fact: the Hep C sufferers families lost their compensation because the vote was lost.
All the huffing and puffing in the world can't get away from the fact that the SSP blew it for our most vulnerable, just when they were needed. As if firing their only real election asset, Tommy Sheridan, wasn't enough of a shot in the foot....
...and now we're meant to be sympathetic?
Boab
Missing the point
07.09.2005 16:24
The Blood Lover
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IWW letter campaign to protect its members wages.
13.09.2005 17:32
Ilyan
wikipedia is a ruthless business
17.09.2005 10:38
http:mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-September/028139.html
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