Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Mick Lynch: 'I do mind being called a baron... I'm not a baron, I don't push people around.'" video.

@Uri Ljlko If he was only looking after his own ambitions his membership would throw him out. He's elected to that position because they regard him as the best person to represent them. If a Union offered wages to its officers that made them 'suffer' that would not be a good advert for the Union and its principles. It would be seen as just another exploiter.
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@Uri Ljlko It's a wage rise for their members they are negotiating at their members' request. What is the justification for members wages to fall in real terms year on year when profits are rising. I understand the rail companies, or some of them, were willing to settle pay rises with the Unions but the government would not let them. If you believe real terms wage rises cause inflation and that's wrong, then do you believe that no one should get wage rises ever? The fact is that many people including this group of workers have had no pay rises in real terms and yet inflation is still going up. There are other factors causing inflation, some are external such as the price of oil, generally inflation is caused by supply and demand issues. Reports have shown that many people are now relying on credit to pay their way and getting into ever more debt. That is unsustainable long term.
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@Uri Ljlko What tosh! Firstly the RMT is a Union, not a big monolith. I think you must be referring to the Railway industry. That's just the stuff you tell yourself or someone tells you. If you lack capacity to think, someone else will do it for you, usually the Tory media. Lack of control? Do you think there is no management? What evidence do you have that the workers are lazy. What is a reasonable workload or working week in your mind? Are people allowed time with their families? The plan of the government is to cut functions which contribute to safety such as maintenance, the presence of ticket offices, guards on trains and moving people to ever longer hours and shifts. A tired train driver is not a safe one.
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@Uri Ljlko O dear - a Thatcherite miner. You must have been popular back in the day. Did you volunteer to give back your pay since you felt miners were being overpaid? Miners risked their lives and health in a dangerous industry and if profits are high they deserved their fair share. Why is it that the workers are always to blame for the country's ills and not those in control of the country and ripping it off? Who put the country in a dire situation? Was it Brexiteers? Was it those in government spending and wasting billions of pounds on their friends and supporters in ineffective non-competitive contracts which they still refuse to publish, contrary to legal requirements? We are being ruled by a criminal bunch at the moment and not only are they criminal but they are lazy and incompetent. They don't believe in government doing anything except creating a laissez faire economic system where everyone is at the mercy of the market (which has no mercy).
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@Uri Ljlko I don't think you caused the death of your industry. I think it was cheap coal from places like Poland and China that undercut the price of British coal, and China in particular was accused of dumping coal (selling it at less than cost price). Thatcher wasn't prepared to protect the British coal industry it seems, but it's all Academic now because green measures would likely have meant that we turned away from coal in the long run. The thing about Thatcher was she didn't try to justify closure like that. She didn't do it gradually or try to encourage replacement industries. She called miners 'the enemy within' and used strong arm tactics just to show how powerful she was. Not a nice person. She destroyed communities that relied on the industry, without a thought for the consequences.
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@Uri Ljlko I think you are making assumptions. The NHS is composed of individual NHS Trusts and purchasers who can make their own decisions. It's not a big monolith as you suggest, and some of the providers are private companies. It's all run through contracts which are revised on an annual basis in line with changing needs. I've had 7 operations and a birth in the NHS. I didn't see any laziness there. 70% of NHS costs are on staff and staff are the ones that give care. Cutting staff equals cutting care and capacity for care. The Tories have done a lot of restructuring of the NHS including basing the restructurings on outside advice and bringing in managers from outside industries (who know nothing about the NHS). So your ideas are out of date and not well researched - just the product of ignorant and lazy thinking, probably influenced by the Tory media, I guess.
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