[doctorzlo]

Here's Jack O'Connor trying to be humourous a few months back.

He's a ex-Trotskyite trade union leader on 124,000 euro a year.

Public sector unions are not all that popular with the population at the moment because they are perceived as unwilling to budge an inch on the issue of pay-cuts (the new aristocracy some have quipped), you can expect more attempts to distract from the main economic woes of the day from more Irish/U.K./European public sector trade unions.

"You notice that when we limit certain items from being imported into Gaza it is "collective punishment", but when they boycott us, it is ok."

...and as pointed out in the Independent item:
From news article:
Has the irony of a trade union movement trying to boycott the one of the very few countries in the region with their own active trade union movement completely escaped them?


Does the fact that the Iranian regime has spent the last few years ruthlessly crushing their own trade union movement matter to them not a jot?


No, as far as the Left is concerned, any criticism of any non-white, and in particular, Muslim country, is seen as neo-imperialism and racism.
But that sensitivity doesn't extend to Israel.


So, as you're heading in to work today, just pause for a moment and contemplate what your union dues are being spent on -- they're not being spent on your best interests, they are, rather being spent on a cynical, foggy-headed, ideologically driven distraction from the real issues that affect us all.


A case of dues against Jews, if you will.