Trade Union movement is in crisis

Originally the Trade Union movement came into existence in order to fight the battles of the workers against the Government of the day, which was invariably used by employers to exploit the workers. The Government imagined that it had a mandate from the general public to provide cheap labour and keep the cost of living as low as possible.

But public opinion became so outraged at the manner in which workers were exploited by their bosses, that eventually the Labour movement as represented by the Trade Unions became the Government. But that seeming triumph for the workers was short lived, as once again the Trades Unions found themselves fighting the Government, a Labour Government.

In other words, the Trades Unions came to be at war with themselves. The workers of Britain came unknowingly to choose as their leaders men and women with a hidden agenda. The Trade Union leaders became embroiled in commercial warfare. It became impossible for workers to have a straightforward fight with an oppressor, who could be a third party fighting a different war.

The Gate Gourmet dispute and the M.G. Rover dispute are both typical examples of where the workers lose, because they are mere cannon fodder in another dispute altogether.

A French firm, with no allegiance whatsoever to the workers of Gate Gourmet, makes a shady deal with British Airways, which involves exploiting the workers in order to make a killing for their French bosses.

The catering workers have no knowledge of the dirty work in which they are being used, but know full well that they have been sacked for a hidden reason. Likewise, with M.G. Rover, a bunch of crooks buys M.G. Rover for a tenner and proceeds to rob the firm into bankruptcy. Without realizing what is happening, the Trades Union members know they have been sold down the river with the connivance of their own leaders.

In order to understand what is happening, it is essential to see how and why new Labour has become a capitalist stronghold. Labour accepted from the Tories the belief that private banks should be allowed to issue new money as credit. Whosoever creates and issues the nation's currency has total power, control, dominion and sovereignty over that nation.

The labour movement, the Trades Union movement, was handed to the capitalists on a plate. They became pawns in a game called global commercial warfare in which there is no respect for human life and in which honesty has no place at all. If only Sally Hunt could be informed of how and why the Trades Union movement is in crisis, we could all be better off.

Doctor Edward C Hamlyn MBChB

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