Sell Out
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-07-22Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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Who defeated the BL workers? Not Edwardes unaided, but Edwardes plus the cowardice of the speed-up and redundancies by conducting an individual ballot of rail workers over the heads of the union leaders on the basis of a "survival plan"
And just as TUC bureau'crats of all sorts muscled in on the BL struggle, using every ounce of their energy to bludgeon the BL workforce into deteat, so too the same TUC leaders - and more! - have rallied to the cause of BR management.
IT The success of these now well-established and transparent tactics depends not so much on their impact on the strikers themselves and the rank and file union membership, but upon the case with which the union leaders are persuaded to collaborate with the requirements of management.
Indeed while it is difficult to teach an old dug new tricks. it is predictable that the dogs who lead the TUC