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thismustbetheblog · 2 years

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#mick lynch #rmt union #RMT Strike #politics #uk politics #ukpol

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barely-coherent-anarchist · 2 years

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seeing a lot of discourse within the british media about these strikes, most notably the fact that several pundits and politicians are claiming that raising wages will "increase inflation".

to be completely blunt, this claim is absolute bullshit. wages haven't kept up with inflation since the 2007 financial crisis, and yet corporations (e.g. private rail companies) have reported record profits. so how the fuck is it acceptable for corporations to enjoy massive profits, but when workers demand pay rises to be able to afford to live, its somehow wrong?

and yes, i know strikes are disruptive, but that's kind of the fucking point. direct action, whether industrial or social only works when disruptive.

so yeah, support the strikes, support workers, and fuck the companies who refuse to pay them properly.

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drumlincountry · 2 years

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Strikes are a great opportunity to consciously appreciate what other people do for you without u noticing! Which is 1. Good for our common wellbeing (builds solidarity). 2. Good for your personal wellbeing (gratitude, hope, and connection are better headmates than despair, alienation, and loneliness). 3. Good for wellbeing of the strike and the union (directs the anger about the strike where they should be, aimed the people who are mistreating workers)

Like @ my UK folllowers. The rail strike is super fucking annoying right? You can't get where you need to go! Your life is more difficult right now. The flip side of that is these rail workers have been making your life quietly, subtly easier for years and years and years!

Capitalism loves to obscure these relationships - and it's true that they're mostly impersonal relationships. You're not FRIENDS with everyone who grows your food or makes your clothes or drives your trains or cleans your city.

You will never meet most of the people whose daily work supports your life - or most of the people who benefit from your work! But they're real. We're real. And we're really helping each other. That's a real connection. They're people you owe a lot to.

And these people who make your life better every day are suffering for it! They haven't been treated fairly or right.

It's easy to just get annoyed at the inconvenience of strike action, and God knows there are powerful forces urging that annoyance. But this is how we can regain some of our lost humanity, in this system of violence that crushes us all. This is what solidarity is. These people have been helping you. This is time to learn, connect, support. Help them back.

#unions #strike action #rmt union #rmt strike #I'm preaching to the choir on tumblr I know #But i'm right #This gratitude stuff isn't a game. It's urgent and needed.#Me Fein #Being angry and scared and disconnected doesn't help us #Also I couldn't find a strike fund to add to this post if anyone has one Lmk #gratitude #mick lynch #I'm posting this to mick Lynch's tag because lots of people are using it but look at me!!!! We are NOT going to build a cult of personality #We simply aren't. girlies we are not gonna do it.

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spiced-wine-fic · 2 years

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#rmt union #cabinet #uk politics #lol 😂

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lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers · 2 years

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Genuinely, though, I think there is something deeply valuable about seeing a proper left wing, working class voice on the TV, explaining things clearly in a way working class people can relate to and understand.

#uk politics #rmt #rmt union #mick lynch

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marxman1 · 3 months

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But the RMT’s strike cancellation—overturning a 90 percent strike vote on December 19—goes beyond the imposition of what will undoubtedly be an inferior pay deal. None of the issues which led to the strike vote have been resolved. This includes pay freezes for those near the top pay band, the axing of travel allowances for LU staff, and above all the gutting of tube workers’ pensions.

#workers struggles #wsws #socialist equality party #iysse #class war #capitalism #rmt union #london tube #london underground #union corruption #union bureaucrats #workers of the world unite #rank and file committees

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tweetingukpolitics · 1 year

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#taj ali #political twitter #huw merriman #rmt union #mick lynch #transport select committee #conservative party #uk news #uk politics

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secretagentsagainstwhatever · 1 year

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i just don’t understand how you can be anti pay strikes whilst there’s currently coronation expenses coming out left right and centre

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nando161mando · 6 months

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"Public transport must be for all the public.

Everyone must have the right to turn up and go, and we must maintain a fully staffed railway.

#StaffOurStations"

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scavengedluxury · 2 years

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#Mick Lynch #rmt union #francis bourgeois

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theinconvenientlifestyle · 1 year

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#uk politics #ukpol #trade unions #unions #rmt union #congratulations 🎉

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thismustbetheblog · 2 years

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#mick lynch #rmt #rmt union #RMT STRIKE #ukpol #uk politics #politics #the way he just ended Jonathan Gullis like that #hook it to my veins

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goblincow · 1 year

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I was at a rally for the first Amazon in the UK to unionize today, the day after UCU (higher education) start their strike alongside CWU (communications workers, post offices) who are continuing to strike, plus ASLEF (railways) striking tomorrow & more across the country & in Scotland.

The NHS is balloting for historic strike action right now, PCS (public sector) is doing the same and NEU (education) is getting ready to strike in the new year.

Socialists and trade union members have been calling for more organised coinciding strikes and I'm glad to see representatives from other picket lines that are out right now showing up to Amazon to support the workers there who just lost their first ever ballot for strike action by 3 votes (thanks to anti-worker laws, but they've learnt their lesson and they're going to absolutely smash the turnout required for the next one, just watch).

Amazon workers in 40 different countries are on strike today, and litigators working with the GMB union (which now represents one of the biggest and the FIRST EVER unionised Amazon warehouse in the UK!) have fought the US government about human rights abuses at guantanamo bay in the past - and they said earlier today that they moved to fight against private employers like amazon because conditions there are as bad if not even worse than they've seen fighting against the US government.

Solidarity with all workers, it's time to build for more united strike action because the solidarity between workers in different unions is immense. It's a political fight too: strikes earlier this year got rid of Boris Johnson and made Liz Truss lose to a lettuce. Time to get rid of the rest of the conservatives and Labour too - just this week Keir Starmer has been trying to turn workers against their favourite scapegoat: the refugees that this government is killing and abusing at a horrific rate.

All strikes are political, and by building the rank & file in the trade union movement, by building solidarity in the working class, we demonstrate the power of the alternative to capitalism, a world run by the working class and for the working class.

Solidarity to members of all striking unions, victory to the workers, and let's continue to build these strikes until we seize the means of production and fully rid ourselves of the capitalist class.

Fuck Jeff Bezos

Here's to the workers at Amazon BHX4!

Watch them crush the anti-union laws and together we'll bring the bosses to their knees! ✊

#amazon #workers #UCU #GMB #PCS #NHS #unite the union #bhx4 #build the strikes #class solidarity #victory to the working class #socialists and workers unite #NEU #ASLEF #RMT #rmt union

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visionsofthefu · 10 months

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Don't be giving Labour praise for the SNP renationalising the railway. The truth of the matter is that Labour when they had the chance didn't renationalise any of the railway. This is the SNPs doing, not Labour's and the RMT union would be wise to ditch useless Labour. Labour never came through on any renationalising when they had a chance, which is part of the reason they were ditched for the SNP in the first place.

#SNP #railway #Scotland #rmt union

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yamnbananas · 11 months

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