People have brought into my message because I look like Brad Pitt. It sounds like boy George. Yeah, trade unionists get called quite a lot. We get called militant extremists and barons. We’re not barons; I don’t push people around; I haven’t got a strategy board. My members certainly aren’t pawns I can be got rid of by my members, unlike Rupert Murdoch. Nobody can get rid of him. We’ve got newspapers.
Media outlets are owned by oligarchs who are telling working-class people like myself. Other trade union leaders that we’re some elite aristocracy, you know, trade union parents. It’s just absolute nonsense. Some of these media people seem surprised that working-class people with accents can articulate a case on behalf of other people. They have ideas about the economy and politics that they find shocking. Still, if they come into mesh rooms on the railway, go down their local pub, or go to their church or mosque, they’ll find millions of articulate working-class people, but we don’t get a chance to express ourselves. My attitude is that I’ll give you a straight answer to a straightforward question, but if you give me a load of nonsense, I’m just going to bat that over the boundary. Give it the treatment it deserves.
Let me show you what I believe is your Facebook page; please confirm or deny it. This is your Facebook page. Is that the level your journalism’s at these days? I asked you if that was you, what would they do if agency workers tried to cross those picket lines. Well, we will picket them. What should we do if we run a picket line? We’ll ask them not to go to work. Do you know how I pick it up? They do, anyway. Well, you can see what picketing involves. I can’t believe this line of questioning.
Are you or are you not a Marxism, Richard? You do come up with the most remarkable twaddle. Sometimes I’ve got to say he says you’re militant and highly left. He went on to say that you’re not normal. Well, it’s ironic to be called not expected by the conservative party to take themselves into the realms of the extreme right when the government intends to bring forward new laws. We’ve heard a bit about it recently, agency workers. Other measures, but that’s not the end of it. We’ve listened to Liz’s trust. Rishi sooner, both saying they will bring in the most extreme anti-trade union laws to make it almost impossible to take legal.
Effective industrial action. We’ve also heard about the police laws they brought under Mrs Patel to stop demonstrations. Any expression of dissent, if you take those two measures together, trying to suppress the right to protest and also trying to stop us from expressing ourselves as workers in the workplace, there’s a real danger that this government. The future leaders of the Tory party are taking a turn to the extreme right. If we’re careful, decades, centuries of progress could be ripped off us in a matter of months kierstarma has responded to these strikes through silence; generally, nobody knows what he identifies with. I’ll be frank with everybody I want labour to win the next election. It’s in the interest of our people that we replace this government with an alternative government but what might happen is that he is so bland.
He is so anonymous that he won’t win that election; he’s got to find a way to identify with the struggles that are going on. Sacking a frontbencher such as sam terry, who comes from the trade union movement whose only guilt is that he stood by me. My members on a picket line are in the wrong direction for any labour party regime. It’s a fundamental mistake to ban labour MPs from being on picket lines. It shouldn’t happen; it never happened. It’s caused a complete car crash of a week. We should have discussed what we would do to raise wages for the British people. The public has given us a great response.
Some of these pickets have turned into spontaneous demonstrations. We’ve had outbursts of support in Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, and south wales all over the place. Those not usually involved in campaigns are traditional trade unionists and the general public. That’s because they recognise that what’s happening to us or could happen if we don’t get a deal has already happened to them. We’ve seen what’s happening in the aviation sector, where people have been ripped off. We’ve seen this in the NHS. We’ve seen the barristers out on strike lately. Everybody feels they’re being ripped off, so that’s why it’s resonating.
People want to get behind us. I get stopped in the street because my profile’s gone up, you know, that’s unusual for somebody that looks like me. Still, people are coming up to me on the bus on the tube saying, keep going, but our members are getting it as well. People are giving them thumbs up in their everyday jobs. Even the train passengers when we go back to work of wishing. I don’t think the stories were expecting this. I don’t think the bosses were expecting it. It’s a tough time for taxi drivers.
It’s even more challenging now that these rail strikes will put a squeeze on your trade, yeah, first. Foremost I want to say that the uh men. Women at the train unions are willing to send him back. They have a right to stand up for working rights, um. Unfortunately, we don’t have stronger partnerships to stand up for that down the years; the people in power, the ruling class, and the powers that be, the media have always sought to divide working people back in the day. It used to be catholic against protestants, Scottish against English, and black against white. That’s all nonsense. Working class people have got to stick together in every community, respecting our diversity and differences and building maximum unity.
The division is fatal for working-class people. We cannot allow that to happen. All workers are one. That’s the attitude we’ve got to take forward, mobilising our people, all workers of every identity, in one mass movement. The cost of living crisis is one of the most significant things we’ve had. By the end of the year, we could have ordinary working-class families paying 500 pounds a month for energy bills; that is phenomenal. It’s unforgivable that a government could let that happen while these companies shell the distribution companies. The privatised gas companies are making unprecedented profits of 37 billion while working people.
Even people on reasonable salaries are struggling to get by week by week. If that profit was turned into a progressive view, the provision of services was in order so that people could enjoy their lives. Be balanced in favour of the ecology and environment, we’d have a much better system, so public ownership is ownership by the people. For the people is an idea that trade unionists. The labour movement has got to put forward, we’ve got a rail system that’s completely confused in this country. We’ve got a mixture of owners of the train operating companies. Most of those owners are European states, so the french and dutch railways, Spanish. German, they take the profits.
Go. subsidise the railways in Europe, but where they are private sector operators such as the first group, go ahead. Last year, others took 500 million out of the railway from a subsidy from the government while they put the fares up. At the same time, they’re saying to railway workers; you can’t have a pay rise for two or three years. You may lose your job. You’ve got to chop up all your conditions. Suppose we had a public sector railway that the people owned. In that case, we could concentrate on making the railway the centrepiece of an integrated transport policy that links up the bus services, the trams, and the ferries we’ve got around our coasts could all be linked up in a low-cost, carbon-free transport system.
We could have an excellent vision for the future of the railway. Public transport was in public ownership that was at the service of the people. At the benefit of our environment, which we all know we need to change as an emergency item so that being in public hands I think is a fundamental of a progressive society transport for the people not for profit what we’ve got to remember is that trade unions exist in every society they’re almost an organic development. Looking at where we’ve progressed, we had a world where we were virtually serfs. We’ve developed an idea where we have regulations at work so health. Safety regimes were brought in through trade union campaigning, the factories act, and the end of children’s exploitation. The ending of many deaths at work thousands of people used to be killed in Britain at work every year we’ve got the idea of the weekend is a trade union idea, public holidays, sick pay; holiday pays itself pensions, statutory education for our children. Then the crown jewel is the national health service, so all of that stuff stems from the trade union movement.
We can’t afford to lose it as working-class people need to join a union because it’s your hope. It’s your strength. If you’re in a partnership, you’re not isolated if you’re on your own, they pick you off like the idea that if you sing on your own, your one voice. If you sing in a choir, it’s a powerful voice being able to have the confidence to turn to your workmates. Say we’ve got an idea. Let’s try. To push for it. We need to get that into a national campaign stemming from every work to make sure that the unions themselves put their flag.
Their identity is in working-class communities, not just in the workplace but in working-class housing estates. On Britain’s streets, the trade unions have got to show the unorganised how to organise. They’ve got to show the people who have given up that there is hope they can manage. Build at the minute, Starmer. The front bench of the labour party seems to be getting pulled to the right as the tories get drawn to the right in this leadership campaign. That’s a tug. War politics is always a tug of war. The working people have got to be with the unions. With other activists.
Campaigners, no matter their background or identity, are working together to pull that back to our side so that we’ve got a natural community-based working-class movement that stands up for our rights. Our positions. Then the politicians will have to follow us. If we get our act together, it’s difficult for working-class people to get their voices heard and get trade union leaders heard of the expressions of solidarity we want to hear. Channels like this double down news, it’s essential that you join us and become linked up. That we have this ability to express ourselves, so join https://dailyplanet.club/news Hear.
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