Comments on The Pensive Quill: Reality must dawn then our day will come

“of the union executive being more concerned with ...

2012-09-08T10:34:02.469+01:00

“of the union executive being more concerned with their balance sheet rather than the welfare of their membership”.

How many times have we seen this? Unions RC church..etc etc. The trade unions in Belfast when i was a 'shop-stupid'in the ITGWU were a joke in the early 80s. I decline membership if it's not a closed shop these days. Transport house had a fleet of rovers for the union reps. Ours came to the factory, met the director and went for lucnh in his jaguar before even meeting the workers. Jobs for the boys, they did fuck all.

I read comments online under articles about austerity and government dirty doings against the needy. People are totally clued in about the austerity and the poor being screwed to replenish German banks. BUT!! Come the next election the same people will vote for 'their' local TD. And there is the problem.

The only things the Unions can debate in every sec...

2012-09-07T23:04:37.595+01:00

The only things the Unions can debate in every sector is, how many redundancies, 6 hour day ,3 or 4 day week.
Connolly was correct, and, still is to this very day, The heads of the Unions sit in there mighty fine offices thinking of were to invest the members dues, The problem is, they have gotten so corrupt and big headed the forget one thing, its the members who keep them in those high places, and, those same members keep the TD's in there high places, and all they can do is sell of everything which belongs to the people, cut unemployment and sickness benefit , Raise taxes, add additional payments by each household as a property tax, vote on a pay increase for themselves, That's also called corruption. Remember this, If you are not satisfied with your Union and what it is doing with your subscriptions, JUST STOP YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS, I did. These people will eventually have to come down and let there feet touch the real ground, they , like others, forget were they came from and how they got to where they are now, The ordinary working class people put them there, and, they have the power to remove them.

Good post Sean ,reminds me of Animal Farm and when...

2012-09-07T21:52:46.436+01:00

Good post Sean ,reminds me of Animal Farm and when the other animals looked into the farm house they could not tell the difference in pig or man,we have come to that stage with the hierarchy of the Irish labour movement,no point in talking about the many faces of qsf...