Category Archives: Trade Unionism

Hicks quits SWP

Posted on October 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Life long socialist Jerry Hicks, the former AEU/Amicus convenor at Rolls Royce in Bristol, who was dismissed in dubious circumstances in 2005, has quit the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), describing the Respect Party in which they are key coalition partners … Continue reading →

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Home care watch

Posted on October 22, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Having less-than-adroitly reneged on one set of ridiculous and uncosted election promises – around waste collection – through the use of a so-called citizen’s jury, a process handily managed by a Labour-friendly organisation in exchange for a fat fee, Helen … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Home Care, Labour Party, Local elections 2007, Local government, Politics, Social Care, Trade Unionism | Tagged , , , | There are 6 comments

If you won't tolerate this . . .

Posted on October 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

With a crisis meeting of the Avon Fire & Rescue Authority, called by maverick Avonmouth Tory Spud Murphy, due to take place on Friday about the notorious “gay fire fighter incident” on The Downs, the silence on the liberal-left of … Continue reading →

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Strange and unusual punishment watch

Posted on October 3, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The acceptable face of modern firefighting You’ve got to have at least some sympathy for these former members of the Blue Watch at Avonmouth fire station who have been disciplined, demoted and had their wages docked for disturbing a gay … Continue reading →

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On the buses

Posted on August 21, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

A letter in Saturday’s Evening Cancer from this new UNITE super-union has a crack at Bristol North West’s Tory candidate Charlotte Leslie. They accuse her of “breathtaking cant and hypocrisy” over her campaign for a better Bristol bus service because … Continue reading →

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Cuts for us, excuses for them

Posted on July 30, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Our old friend Steve Comer appears to have got himself a new gig after failing to become the leader of the council. The leader of Bristol’s Lib Dems, who also moonlights on the National Executive of the alleged left wing, … Continue reading →

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UNISON's monkey business

Posted on July 2, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Further proof – as if it were needed – that public sector union, UNISON, is run by a bunch of loopy control freaks with no regard for anything other than feather-bedding themselves, supporting their New Labour government friends and shafting … Continue reading →

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Local trade unions' congress

Posted on June 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Senior Labour cabinet member John Bees, stalwart of the local T&G, is rumoured to be spending a lot of time in “home care discussions” with the city council’s GMB rep Rowena Hayward. This selfless partnership working on behalf of some … Continue reading →

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Wobblies' Tankie smear shocker!

Posted on June 17, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

The forthcoming Employment Tribunal in Bristol where The Wobblies (IWW) will represent train driver Patrick Spackman (Blogger Passim), sacked from First Great Western for swearing, has now fallen victim to some good old-fashioned British leftist sectarianism. Spackman has already upset … Continue reading →

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Wobbly tribunal sensation

Posted on June 11, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Here’s a curiosity… It’s been announced on Bristol Indymedia that The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies, as they’re better known, are going to represent a local train driver sacked by First Great Western at an Employment Tribunal … Continue reading →

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