Money For Labour, Strikes For Everyone Else

by Chris | 27 Jun 2008 | No Comment

red-piggy-bankCertainly that will be the case if this happens:

Unions are to demand new rights to strike as the price for keeping the cash-strapped Labour Party afloat.

Repealing the ban on secondary industrial action is among a swath of left-wing policies that unions want to see in the Labour manifesto. The pressure on Gordon Brown comes as he is relying on the unions to help to avert Labour’s cash crisis, when they are in increasingly militant mood…

As unions begin to flex their muscles on the ground, they are working to maximise their leverage over the Prime Minister at a time when the Government is politically vulnerable and the party is financially parlous. (The Times)

If Labour give in to the Unions, they will have sold this country down the river.

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