Hook Line & Sinker
26-06-11
Wilt Portfolio
We do rather think that the unions are walking into a trap – the Tory’s are just waiting to pounce with new, and Wilt believes welcome, new legislation to curtail the unions – Milliband, Balls, Tony Blair and others have warned them. See article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8599446/Michael-Gove-warns-teachers-against-militancy-ahead-of-planned-strike.html
Gove, as Mrs Wilt cares to refer to him as ‘looking like a schoolboy’, aint no idiot, nor are Milliband, Blair or Balls. Neither are the public who, like Wilt, are pissed off big time over the excessive benefits afforded public sector workers.
Bring it on unions! You aint seen nothing yet, believe me.
Wilt
As usual I disagree with Wilt on the matter of the unions. Strike action is the ultimate right of workers to take. There has been very little militant public sector union action for years, especially among the professional groups. That they feel strongly enough to take strike action now should indicate to the coalition MPs that their political futures can also be severely curtailed by union members en masse not voting for them. It should also be noted that the very people who are demanding changes to public sector workers’ pensions, our MPs, are not going to relinquish their own excessively generous public sector final salary pensions any time soon. Hypocrisy or what? Personally I am quite prepared to strike in defence of my agreed pension entitlements. If they are going to make changes they should affect only new entrants, not current staff.
Oh and while I am here I should add that I used to like Gove as a newspaper columnist but he has proven to have no presence in the visual media. He is hugely unimpressive and a big disappointment. He seems a bit “wet” to be honest. I expected more of him. The prospect of he and Vince Cable taking on the unions is frankly laughable. The toffish new PM and his oleaginous Chancellor won’t have the unions quaking in their boots either come to that.