J30 strike: NUT, PCS, UCU, ATL call for a general strike on June 30th

[The39thStep]

BNP?

very very hot but NOT the BNP

 

[dylans]

very very hot but NOT the BNP

Solidarity perhaps?

 

[Fedayn]

Any guesses?

And followed by this gem "Agitate, educate and organise".

 

[The39thStep]

Solidarity perhaps?

Bulls eye

The official BNP quote is ( as fed partly reveals)

British National Party activists must get behind these actions to defend the standard of living and quality of life for our people. We will not be forced to pay for the mistakes of the politicians and bankers. Agitate, educate and organise!"

 

[frogwoman]

bloody hell

 

[articul8]

no it doesn't.. there is a central group who do the website, @ukuncut twitter feed and facebook page, and call national days of action but all the local groups are essentially independent from the central group.. it's a network structure not a top-down heirarchical structure.
Things might slow down a bit if the central group decided to be bought off, as they wouldn't call a national day of action which usually spurs quite a few actions, but there would still be local groups doing stuff - there were iirc 4 actions listed for the 30th before ukuncut called a national day of action, and I expect some of the ones added afterwards were already being planned..

Hmm...I do worry that the TUC will be doing more telling than listening - let's hope the local groups don't buy it

 

[treelover]

BNP unions, marginal,

Meanwhile the BBC propaganda begins: on the mass appeal 'The One Show' they have just has that dreadful woman off the Apprentice who has very right wing views having a real go at P/S workers, contrasting them with very hard working Private sector workers( the meme of the coming period)

it was an authored piece, but why was it broadcast, they won't have apackage from the POv of a P/S worker, will they?

This will now be seen as the 'commonsense' view by many who watch this popular show..

 

[ymu]

Bulls eye

The official BNP quote is ( as fed partly reveals)

Isn't that exactly how the far right rose in the '30s, the last time we had global financial meltdown? It's never been quite as simple as "right-wingers 4 rich fuckers".

 

[dylans]

Isn't that exactly how the far right rose in the '30s, the last time we had global financial meltdown? It's never been quite as simple as "right-wingers 4 rich fuckers".

Yup. Fascism has always been about offering all things to all people. Populist revolutionary rhetoric for the proles and offers of greatness to the failing petite bourgeoisie who hate those below and fear and envy those above.

 

[ymu]

Interesting times. Dangerous times. Best hope we're up to it, eh.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Jesus fucking Christ in a sidecar.

So much rhetoric and one-eyed opinion masquerading as fact despite no actual facts to back it up.

http://melaniephillips.com/teachers-have-a-duty-of-care-to-their-pupils-and-that-is-why-they-should-never-go-on-strike

 

[binka]

Jesus fucking Christ in a sidecar.

So much rhetoric and one-eyed opinion masquerading as fact despite no actual facts to back it up.

http://melaniephillips.com/teachers-have-a-duty-of-care-to-their-pupils-and-that-is-why-they-should-never-go-on-strike

read the article on the mail site for some cracking comments:

I imagine plenty of perverts will have already circled Thursday's date in red in their diaries. Unexpected consequences - groups of children hanging around in shopping centres all day as their parents can't afford to take a day off.

- Garry, Swindon, 27/6/2011 14:52

 

[The39thStep]

read the article on the mail site for some cracking comments:

I imagine plenty of perverts will have already circled Thursday's date in red in their diaries. Unexpected consequences - groups of children hanging around in shopping centres all day as their parents can't afford to take a day off.

- Garry, Swindon, 27/6/2011 14:52

There is a real obsession about child sexual predators these days. Actually they can hang around and watch truants most days anyway

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Just heard (on Radio 4) that the Scum has asked parents to strike-break schools. Fuck off Murdoch and go back to slobberinng over your Milton Friedman signed copies.

e2a: Just seen there's a separate thread on this. Still, you know what I mean etc etc.

 

[articul8]

read the article on the mail site for some cracking comments:

I imagine plenty of perverts will have already circled Thursday's date in red in their diaries. Unexpected consequences - groups of children hanging around in shopping centres all day as their parents can't afford to take a day off.

- Garry, Swindon, 27/6/2011 14:52

yes, it's no like paedo's can pose as good citizens ready to "keep the school open" (break the strike) is it?

 

[dylans]

This is not a serious attempt to turn parents into scabs. Rather it is an attempt to impose the view that parents are universally against the strike and therefore isolate teachers. This is what is going on here.

 

[ymu]

Backfiring nicely then. Mumsnet not happy.

 

[dylans]

Backfiring nicely then. Mumsnet not happy.

Yes I think there is considerable sympathy for the teachers despite the media dragging every "spokesperson" for irrelevant right wing pressure groups they can find into every news studio

 

[_angel_]

BNP unions, marginal,

Meanwhile the BBC propaganda begins: on the mass appeal 'The One Show' they have just has that dreadful woman off the Apprentice who has very right wing views having a real go at P/S workers, contrasting them with very hard working Private sector workers( the meme of the coming period)

it was an authored piece, but why was it broadcast, they won't have apackage from the POv of a P/S worker, will they?

This will now be seen as the 'commonsense' view by many who watch this popular show..

Another vote for switching over to watch Emmerdale then!

 

[ymu]

Yes I think there is considerable sympathy for the teachers despite the media dragging every "spokesperson" for irrelevant right wing pressure groups they can find into every news studio

The NYT reported a poll after the attacks on collective bargaining power for public sector unions were started by the new tea party governors earlier this year. On an issue that was solely about public sector union rights, with no budget implications attached, and hefty media propagandising from the right ...

... 61% came out in support of the public sector unions. In the US.

 

[Balbi]

The Scum Says today.....

On Thursday, a hardcore of militant teachers will try to shut all Britain's 23,000 state schools by striking over pensions. It would harm pupils and cause family childcare chaos. The Sun says this cynical strike must not succeed. Today we call on parents and the majority of moderate teachers to keep schools open.

For decades, education has been in the grip of hardline teaching unions. Their dead hand has crushed progress, destroyed dreams and betrayed pupils by dragging down standards in pursuit of clapped-out Socialist dogma. The time has come to smash the militants' power over classrooms.

Two teachers' unions are calling stoppages on Thursday's national day of public sector strikes: the National Union of Teachers and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers. Some teachers grumble about necessary changes to their generous pensions. But while they face pay curbs like everyone else, their union leaders are very fat cats indeed. NUT boss Christine Blower has just had a ten per cent rise and gets a package of £133,871. ATL boss Mary Bousted's package is £130,749. This the militant pair willing to damage our children's education with a strike that has no moral legitimacy.

Of the NUT's 218,000 balloted members, only 79,259 voted to strike. Of the ATL's 80,000 members, only 24,000 voted to strike.
With other teaching unions yet to vote, that means only one in five of England's 500,000 teachers has backed the walkout. Why are the moderate majority letting themselves be pushed around?

This strike can be broken if parents and decent teachers form a moral majority to keep schools open. Our children are falling down the global education ladder, particularly in science and technology. Nothing can improve until the militants are crushed. If you are a parent, offer to help your school on Thursday.

If we can keep classrooms open it will be an historic victory against Neanderthal union militancy.

The Sun's battle to stop the Summer Of Hate starts here.

There's so much to be amused by there it actually hurts

 

[belboid]

This is not a serious attempt to turn parents into scabs. Rather it is an attempt to impose the view that parents are universally against the strike and therefore isolate teachers. This is what is going on here.

a bloody stupid plan, as when virtually no parents offer to go in, it will look rather more like no one supports gove. Not exactly the first time he hasn't thought a plan thru tho

 

[frogwoman]

The Scum Says today.....




There's so much to be amused by there it actually hurts

Aahahahah

 

[treelover]

'For decades, education has been in the grip of hardline teaching unions. Their dead hand has crushed progress, destroyed dreams and betrayed pupils by dragging down standards in pursuit of clapped-out Socialist dogma. The time has come to smash the militants' power over classrooms. '


thats really incendiary language for a newspaper(so called) it is more like you would get in the Far Right papers of 1930's Germany...

'power without responsibility' indeed..

 

[weepiper]

the editor of the Sun, yesterday

 

[dylans]

a bloody stupid plan, as when virtually no parents offer to go in, it will look rather more like no one supports gove. Not exactly the first time he hasn't thought a plan thru tho

Cue journalists scouring the country up and down to find one and any prize examples of parents scabbing before plastering it across the news

 

[treelover]

The Silverbirch strategy in the Miners Strike

 

[Fedayn]

As all too often jaded as I am there's maybe's a few changes in my workforce and certainly a hardening of attitude against the government. At staff meetings 481 voted to oppose the pay offer whislt 2 abstained. Serial scabs and long term refusers to join PCS are joining/rejoining in order to strike, higher executive officers not known for their striking are informing their staff they won't be in on Thursday and a carpark meeting held today-in staffs own time-attracted over 300 people which hasn't been seen here for many years. Staff taking away leaflets for the strike rally on Thursday..... Perhaps..........

 

[lopsidedbunny]

We need a big one with roits looming and I disappionted that the RMT chicken out...

 

[belboid]

the reason for their strike was completely settled (the worker was re-instated). A tad harsh to call that 'chickening out'