New anti-union law in UK takes aim at strike wave

1. SOLIDARITY ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

2. Transnational movement building. Raising awareness is a critical 1st step, love the RNN and we are in solidarity with you Gaz!!!!

3. at least they have Lynch & Dempsey. the US has absolutely NO ONE to fight for workers. my take & hard line stance. anyone, ANYONE who is anti worker & anti union is the enemy. end of story!

4. This cat knows his shit, talks his talk, and obviously walks the walk. We desperately need spokespeople and authentic labor leaders like him. Many thanks for this interview. I will try to contribute financially more to this great network when I can.

5. Nader is right? The Frankenstein corporations have taken over and are entirely in control and leading the entire globe to destruction. Privatization is the devious mechanism, the greedy goblins, along with the managers and bought politicians (is there any other kind at present?) serving these satanic forces. i.e. the shareholders/owner class. . . with their incredible, immoral profits.

6. In return playing fairly , to whom much is given much is expected . But I digress , since atonement or the story of Jonah (for the rich and poor) is meaningless to most of us :

   Excessive greed and the uncontrollable desire by some of us to play God is a bigger problem , out of an ingrain wickedness within us all shows us all this is still the world of Satan .

   Globally one way or another God’s forcing all of us to repent , because many of the oppressed if they could change places with the rich would do the same . And some of us would do even worse to the poor .

   Never forget at one time the wealthy were amongst the poorest in society , and Satan himself was an angel once upon a time . Reparation and repentance is the solution for the poor and for the rich , because the sins of the father are visiting the child on both sides and exponentially on the oppressor’s side !

   Need we say more ? Amin and Shalom .

7. The rest of the world always follows the corrupt US.
   When Biden passed a law making it a felony for rail workers to strike, the other lemurs followed suit.

8. A moving train with hundreds of people onboard, isolated from police, security and emergency services is a recipe for disaster. I wouldn't want to travel on a train without a guard on board. Imagine flying on a jetliner without cabin staff to advise passengers and take care of emergencies. Train guards are called "Guards" for a reason, it was recognised over 150 years ago that a train needs a Guard onboard. It's just an attempt to reduce staffing and increase profits. How about we do away with fire and emergency services in order to reduce costs? The managers and executives would save enough to give themselves a fat pay rise.

9. Isn’t it odd, the people to be accountable and responsible for our country are the experts at avoiding responsibility and accountability..?

10. Thanx. Up!

11. Corporations rule and citizens drool

12. Your gouvernment sold your railways to private owners from other lands. Now dont expect anything to get better. They will milk it to death. Question is why it was sold in the first place ? Second question is who got this money ? Now you are in deep trouble but they sold you all long ago. I would say change work, quit this mess and live happy life. Sad but it can be done. Dont expect in 10 years any substantial over inflation pay rise.

13. UKRAINE THE ENDGAME
    It should be clear to any independent analyst that the war in Ukraine has been planned for decades. The powers that control the Western economy are well aware that we have approached the ultimate limit of what the West is capable of handeling. The U.S. has deliberately not accepted Russia's transformation into the new Russia. The U.S. has exploited Russia as an external enemy to politically achieve its long-term strategic goals of maintaining world domination.
    Using NATO as a tool and Europe as a henchman, the goal has always been to envelop Russia and thus facilitate the break-down and, in the long run, the dissolution of the current Russia in order to access its natural resources. World domination cannot exist without constant influxes of natural resources. In order to "dissolve" the difficulties that had arisen in the eastern regions of Ukraine, the collective West turned a blind eye to the ethnic problems and allowed Ukraine to bomb and murder tens of thousands of Russians in these regions.     
    Biden was appointed as the "Defender of Ukraine" even before the U.S. involvements in the 2014 coup. That proofs that the U.S. early realized the opportunities to exploit the unrest to achieve its goals. The fact that Biden has been personally allowed to do “private business” with Ukraine has, of course, spurred him on to do a good job. To pour oil on the unrest and delay Russia's involvements "peace agreements" were staged with Russia, Misk1, and Minsk2. These would give the U.S. time to militarily rearm and politically control Ukraine ahead of the planned war we now experiencing. The fact that the Minsk agreements were merely a sham is today publicly attested. We should remember that the disarmament and arms restrictions agreements that have existed between Russia and the United States have been unilaterally broken by the United States, so that they do not stand in the way of the forthcoming efforts to break Russia and then China.
    The fact that the collective West has now deliberately allowed itself to be raped, shows that the EU is only America's obedience states and that we stand up to defend today's world (un)order. This time, however, events have evolved in an un predicted way so that the world is being divided into the old West and the New East. The new East does not dance to US choreography and the total world is now seeing a new phase in its development. The old must die and the new must emerge. The US is facing a total economic disaster as the new East is about to exclude the petrodollar and thus the US is fundamentally threatened. We now have a Russia that has always been bullied by the West and a United States that is struggling not to perish. A bullied nation that has eaten itself strong and will no longer tolerate its tormentor on one side and a great power that fears its doom on the other side.
    The war in Ukraine and all the Western sanctions against Russia have taken a turn that the collective West did not expect. It has hastened the eastern countries' association against the United States, to an extent that has put Washington in a predicament, from which it has difficulty wriggling. The war in Ukraine cannot be lost by Russia for natural reasons and the US/NATO has to battle on Russia's backyard. The EU has committed collective suicide and is now desperately trying to hold on to NATO, which they believe is their lifeline.
    A NATO that is full of a bunch  of star-studded military personnel and member countries with micro-armies leaning on empty weapons stores. 
    The EU machine and the mainstream media have brainwashed their inhabitants to be able implement their insane decisions. The majority in the West do not understand what will happen to them as a result of sanctions, economic misery and unrests that will be spread throughout Europe.
    There is a glimmer of ridicule shining over our the Swedish Military Supreme Commander when he proudly, on TV, says that Sweden is prepared to take the first blow in the event of an attack…. How stupid can a Supreme Commander be?  We have no army and there will be no attack from the East.  Please Supreme Commander you are already defeated by the USA without you knowing!

14. Hi Guys, I have a request.
    
    I would love to see a news segment from The Real News Network on the following issue that is actually very scary, in regards to US aggression in the Pacific.
    
    US Marine Corps general James Bierman recently made damning statements in an interview with the FT. Youtube won't let me post it here. He stated that the US is preparing for war with China in Japan and Taiwan, following the same recipe that 'worked well' in Ukraine.

15. It’s economic warfare. The profit motive is to screw all of us and screw the many for profits taken for the few. It’s not an accident.

16. Great news ban strikes all they do is disruption to the public give them a ultimatum to return to Work or sack them thier all an high pay pensions and big payments when they retire it's sickening sack them all it's all caused by the Labour Party who control the Unions.

17. SABOTAGE !

18. "Where's this all heading?": "I'm hoping the RMT dispute ends as soon as possible" Hardly inspiring hope/optimism, devoid of a political program or strategy. The current UK government has little to no democratic legitimacy (Rishi Sunak is now the 3rd unelected Tory Prime minister). The unions – or union members on picket lines – should be demanding a general election. This would be a significant victory (symbolically, at the very least) and invigorate the working class politically.

19. Britain claiming itself to be a democracy, practise human rights and freedom is getting to be a more and more ridiculous joke. First up is the problem of a royal family that still impose itself over British society. Who voted them for that role?

20. But – But – But = Europeans Are the Best at This , yep they are = THIS " ROMAN RULE OF LAW " MUST END = GREAT BRITAIN NEEDS TO END = THE CROWN NEEDS TO FALL !!! the Witch is already Gone = IT NEEDS TO END !!!

21. Didn’t it start that way in 1930s Germany anti union laws? Bring back the IWW!

22. Thanks. Worldwide solidarity of workers, a must.

23. You have voted for Tories for 12 years, this is the price to pay! JC was ousted and Starmer is the same breed. no need to cry now. Everyone deserves people who rule them I guess.

24. The UK gov is using taxpayers cash to compensate rail operators whilst strikes happen, £500million so far, leaving no incentive for operators to make a deal, prolong the strikes so they can justify hobbling the unions is even further.

25. Not a great way to start a discussion, a bit like begging

26. They want pre Dickensian conditions for working people. Any day now one of them is actually going to propose slavery as an actual solution.

27. The supreme court just heard the opening arguments on strikes in our country just a day ago. If they go ahead and bar us from striking we should absolutely ignore that ruling! If we don't in the labor movement we are done !. Time for workers to take radical labor actions .!

28. We are the people of the world. If we do not stand together we fall apart. We the people are how this world operates. That is the only way we will survive. Do not let them control the food. The water and the electric. Let's stand together as one. We the people we are the ones we run this world. If they want to eat we control their Asses…

29. Yes, worker solidarity must be international. Great to see an interview that's inclusive across countries. If corporations can be multinational so can the working class!

30. Meanwhile the goverment leaders give themselves huge raises or are rich so they dont care or it doesnt affect them. They also send your money to Ukraine and impose boomerang sanctions .. they bring us down rather than elevate us.

31. Every single major strike in history was at the time illegal. Government always tries this tactic, and change will not happen until people are willing to go to jail, willing to get hurt, and make the company or nation hurt so much they give in.
    I am waiting until they reintroduce strike breakers, as I figure that will be coming at some point.

32. Simple solution! 100% tax rate for anything over a one million. Either they share to profits or the government will.

33. You should do your research so you represent needy, deserving people rather than those selfish, overpaid wankers working for the national rail system, 95% of whom already earn more than the national average. Train drivers who spend their days sitting on their fat arses & whose chores consist of pressing a stop & go button, earn double what an experienced teacher does, double that of a nurse, 50% more than a trainee doctor and only 15% less than a surgeon. As for union leaders, they earn the combined salary of five average people. Striking national rail workers are scum and the union leaders are worse. Go on people, display yet more ignorance and accuse me of being a Tory…that would be amusing seeing as I'm a staunch advocate of communism.

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35. God shave our gracious King. And thanks to Maggie.

36. Thanks for the great coverage of our situation and relating it to the US situation. It’s really nice to have this international solidarity.

37. The only disagreement I have with the RMT man is that he keeps saying Tory. The problem is systemic and way above petty party politics. The establishment includes Tory, Labour and every other puppet party. Besides which our whole regime is subservient to USA interests.

38. The days of Carnaby St and the Beatles are LONG OVER. Even then, the UK tax rates meant a lot of fraud and graft. After Meg Thatcher, Tony Blair and Blondie, the UK now has as EVIL a gubment as the USA.

39. Best of modern demoracy: People don't have any rights, if the government does not like it. Peopel have to obey, to work hard, to die soon after retierment, if retirement is reached at all, to pay taxes as the government wants it, to buy as expensive as possible for the well being of the upper upper class, and of course to remain silent.
    Isn't this the time to show the government, that people do have rights. Isn't this the time for a general strike?
    No, not at all. As long as to few people do not suffer in the extreme all people will hold still and hope that it will get better.
    In their hearts they already know, that it will not get better. Only if all hope is lost, …

40. The corrupt corporate power brokers sure like to pass laws that further enable their corruption and greed.

41. Unions be like "wanna join us to ensure better workplace rights and better wages? Okay give us some of your money. Also you can only join if you know somebody already in the union. And also, you might have to wait for a couple of dudes to either retire or die. But yes we're doing this for the common worker and his rights." Lmfao unions can be just as corrupt as the corporate entities they claim to be against.

42. great interview, thank you

43. Ask trade union activist for decades it's time in the UK for a General Strike to bring down these bullshit politicians who are trying to ruin the working class and bring us under Tory subservience

44. Right on Time to get the HUGE MARXISm ORGANIZEDPUBLIC UNION MAFIA!

45. Unions are 60 years past their usefulness. Want to double the price of ANYTHING? Unionize.

46. The rich have billions of dollars tied up and ensure they pay accountants rather than tax while the average worker has little savings and pays hefty taxes making them the most vulnerable targets!
    Strikes don't happen for no reason!
    Workers need to be paid yet sacrifice pay when they strike so clearly feel very very strongly about anything they strike on!
    Strikes almost always only occur after round after round of failed negotiations with employers and employer groups ( basically employer unions equipped with high paid lawyers and litigators etc )

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