Mass Immigration - Union Approved Supply Of Scab Labour

One of the most powerful lobbying groups in any election or referendum campaign is the trade union movement along with other organized labour associations. It's worth taking into account their past record and current behavior before accepting their recommendations.

Anyone who has been involved in an industrial dispute and manned a picket line will know that the most emotional and divisive issue is a colleague defying his union and continuing to work. Solidarity must be one hundred percent for any industrial dispute to succeed therefore strike breaking is the biggest crime in the annals of organized labour.

When one worker crosses a picket line that solidarity is breached and a trickle back to work becomes a flood, consequently the strike collapses and the cause is lost. To that end, and to discourage anyone from crossing a picket line, the offending worker is labeled a scab, vilified by his colleagues and ostracized from the community.

Such is the heinousness of strike breaking this vilification and social exclusion is extended to the family and includes intimidation and in some cases violent assault.

History shows that trade unionists and their sponsored representatives in the legislatures played a pivotal role in improving the lot of the working classes.

Ordinary working people elected leaders from within their own ranks to fight for justice in the form of a fair days pay for a fair days work, job security and decent working terms and conditions.

Trade union leaders in those days were heroes who made sacrifices and suffered hardship on behalf of their members and their communities. This included black listing by employers, prosecution and imprisonment and in the very early days transportation to the penal colony of Australia. (Tolpuddle Martyrs here)

Modern day trade union leaders and the representatives of the labour movement in the legislatures are a totally different breed. Having risen up the ranks and got themselves elected they join the professional political class who's loyalty is to their political ideology and the globalist agenda as opposed to their members and their families.

These union leaders are the aristocracy of the labour movement who negotiate personal terms and conditions for themselves that contradict their working class credentials. They award themselves eye watering remuneration packages that hard working families and job creators can only dream about. All paid for out of the wage packets of their members.

When trade union leaders connive with the political elite to open the borders and import labour from third world countries they do so with the knowledge that competition for jobs will increase substantially with a resultant increase in unemployment.

They also do so with the knowledge that these poor unfortunates will work for less pay and degraded terms and conditions that were fought for by union members in the past.

This endless supply of cheap labour increases competition for the remaining jobs that have not been transferred overseas and therefore has the effect of driving down wages and degrading terms and conditions.

Because they are willing to work for less pay and degraded terms and conditions that were dearly bought, this massive imported supply of cheap labour are the equivalent of the scabs of old.

This union aristocracy and the leaders of the labour movements in the national legislatures are the most despicable breed imaginable. They have been chosen to fight for the interests of their members and their members families but the moment they attain office they adopt the agenda and the lifestyle of the very people they are supposed to fighting.

They have assisted government and unscrupulous employers to outsource their members jobs to third world countries that discourage trade unionism and in some cases imprison their leaders. These countries use cheap labour that does not enjoy the protections that domestic unions have won with great sacrifice.

In addition to this, they collaborate with government and the same unscrupulous employers to import cheap semi-skilled and skilled workers from overseas to replace domestic workers and in many cases these dispossessed workers are forced to train their own replacements. If this isn't scab labour on a massive scale I don't know what is.

In Great Britain, the trade union aristocracy and the labour leaders in Parliament campaign for continued British membership of the European Union which, as they well know, requires the free movement of jobs and people across borders.

The has resulted in the relocation of entire industries such as ship building to cheaper countries or their complete destruction such as the fishing industry.

At the same time better pay and conditions, along with the worlds most generous and easily accessible welfare benefits system, has resulted in the influx of over three million economic migrants in a decade or so, this has depressed wages and increased unemployment among the indigenous population.

This treachery must go down as the biggest sellout in trade union history and it doesn't end there. Trade union leaders and their political cohorts in the national legislatures share the dream of the global elite for a borderless world with unfettered free trade and free movement of people.

They know without question that this will result in employers relocating businesses and jobs to countries where their costs will be cheaper and where the regulatory climate will allow them a free hand to dictate the terms and conditions of their employees.

Common sense dictates that workers and their families will gravitate to where the wages are higher and welfare benefits more generous and accessible until such time as the host country has degenerated to the same level as the countries they leave behind.

In conclusion, modern trade union leaders are now fully fledged members of the political class with whom they share a common ideology and who abuse the power entrusted to them in good faith to impose their common political agenda.

The best interests of their members and their member's families comes a long way down their list of priorities.

Past articles on the subject for further reading:

Leader of the United Mine Workers of America sells out his members for the Democratic Party here.

The leaders of British National Union of Mineworkers uses the loyalty of their members in a political strike which results in the destruction of the industry here.

Obama Kills The Coal Industry - Mining Communities Self Destruct And Get No Sympathy

A motley association of eco-warriors, hippies, associated lefties and the 'climate change' industry will be breaking out the organic, alcohol free champagne today after their leader fulfilled his promise to kill off the coal industry. Without putting anything in place to mitigate the effects of their actions, Obama together with the vested interests that support him have put their ideology before the wellbeing of the people.

As anyone who follows the behavior of politicians will know, this latest action by Obama has got little to do with cooling the planet and everything to do with controlling the people. As important as that debate is, for the purpose of this article it is peripheral to the one about tribal, party based voting habits and will be dealt with separately.

Electors are obviously unaware that casting ones vote for a particular political party on the basis of family tradition degrades democracy, disenfranchises the voter and emboldens the politicians to indulge in self serving behaviors that are detrimental to the well being of both community and country.

Safe in the knowledge that they will never be voted out of office, the political class in 'safe' constituencies routinely ignore the wishes of the people and follow their own ideological agenda regardless of any detrimental effects and often enriching themselves in the process.

The issue of blind tribal loyalties and the part it plays in the downfall of communities is common to both Great Britain and the USA.

As a native of the South Wales coal field I witnessed first hand the consequences of the closure of the British coal industry and subsequent effect on the traditionally close knit communities. The blame for this lies entirely with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM),  its two politically motivated leaders, Arthur Scargill and Mick McGahey together with their supporters and sympathetic political activists, including the Labour Party.

The reasons for the demise of the British coal industry can be read here.

It was obvious from his background and his initial utterances that Senator Obama was the most ideologically driven presidential candidate in history, so when he told the American people that his energy plan would mean "that energy bills would necessarily sky rocket", they should have sat up and taken notice.

His next statement was an open declaration of war against the coal industry, the miners and their communities:  "if somebody wants to build a coal fired power plant they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them".

With a clear, unequivocal declaration of that nature one would think that the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and its leadership would beat to quarters and mobilise the membership either to lobby against Obama's proposals or to back the other candidate.

Ignoring the threat to the livelihoods of the coal miners or the well being of their families, the UMWA leadership endorsed candidate Obama and in an act of blind obedience, or utter stupidity, the membership complied.

By this mindless action the mining communities were party to their own downfall and therefore deserve no sympathy; they brought it on themselves.

In mitigation it can be said that Obama did promise that millions of 'green' jobs will be created as the energy sector moved to renewables together with millions more 'shovel ready' jobs as part of the stimulus package. The mining communities should have known that these were promises made during an election campaign and shouldn't be taken as truth.

These jobs didn't materialise and adding insult to injury, one 'green' energy company, the infamous Solyndra, made off with billions of taxpayer money before declaring bankruptcy.

As a further kick in the teeth for the coal mining industry Obama chooses to appease the green lobby instead of mitigating the disaster facing the coal mining communities.  He is refusing to endorse the Keystone pipeline project with the consequent loss of well paid jobs.

He is also refusing to drill for oil on federal lands or to fully embrace fracking for natural gas which would go someway to replacing the lost coalfield jobs and help move America towards energy independence.

With this record of antagonism toward the mining communities one would have thought that the UMWA leadership would endorse anyone but Obama for a second term but in an act of supreme cowardice and without a care for the welfare of the membership they held off their recommendation until late in the campaign before advising an abstention.

This was a cynical manipulation of the traditional loyalty of coal miners with the intention of not being seen to be endorsing the anti-coal Obama while at the same time preventing the membership from effectively campaigning for the other candidate.

It is worth noting the attitude of UMWA leader, Mike Caputo who like his British counterparts, Scargill and McGahey, puts his own political loyalties above that of the people he is sworn to represent.

Caputo combines his leadership of the UMWA with being a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. This dual representation brings into question his loyalties should there be a conflict of interest between his political party and his membership.

This question was answered during the second term election where he endorsed Obama knowing full well his malign intentions toward the UMWA membership. By leaving it late into the campaign before recommending an abstention he effectively prevented any opposition to Obama being organised from within the coal mining communities.

Caputo's cynical manipulation of his members can be highlighted by his statement after he recommended an abstention:

"I am a hardcore Democrat, I intend to vote for Obama. I am loyal to my party".

Like his British counterparts, Messrs. Scargill and McGahey, Mike Caputo is loyal to his party, not to the membership or the communities that have put their faith in him to look after their interests.

It would appear that the idea that trade unions are there to look after the interests of their members and their families doesn't apply the coal industry in either the USA or Great Britain.

I would suggest that the coal mining communities learn from this treachery and stop their tribal voting habits. In West Virginia and elsewhere they should treat Mr. Caputo with the same contempt with which he treats them and boot him out at the earliest possible opportunity from both the Legislature and the UMWA.

Update: 

It would appear that I am not the only one who thinks they are stupid. See here.

Obama's War On Coal - Time To Stockpile Prozac

If anyone is taken in by reasons for the war on coal by their 'Progressive in Chief', then there is no hope for the American people. Having already claimed that he will heal the planet and stop the oceans from rising, he is now claiming that by throwing thousands of coal miners out of work and destroying long established communities, he will cool the planet and stop any further hurricanes such as Sandy and Katrina.

In addition to this nonsense, the 'Progressive in Chief' has put the American people on notice that "energy prices will necessarily have to skyrocket" in order to cool the planet. The community organizer and economic genius obviously hasn't worked out the devastating effect this will have on American industry and the jobs market, at a time when the economy is in the doldrums and the nation's debt is approaching $17 trillion.

As the informed people of the world are aware, due to the lack of global warming over the last 17 years, the 'progressive' elite have been forced to change the name of their scam from 'Man Made Global Warming' to the more flexible 'Combating Climate Change'.

Either way they are still carrying on with the same plan to wreck the economies of the developed world and redistribute its wealth in order to compensate the developing world for the damage they have already done to the planet and to help them to 'combat climate change' in the future.

In his choreographed speech the 'Progressive in Chief' wheeled out the same tired, discredited soundbites that blighted the airwaves during the height of the scam. 'The science is settled' and 'the debate is over' etc. ad nauseum, that were so beloved by global warming billionaire Al Gore.

President Obama deliberately failed to mentioned the lack of warming for the last 17 years; he failed to mention the 'Climategate Scandal' whereby the so called experts from the Climate Change Unit at the University of East Anglia were caught red handed falsifying data, using flawed cost models and vilifying any scientist who spoke the truth.

He also failed to mention that the very basis for the global warning scam i.e. the Mann Hockey Stick graph, has been exposed as a fake and also the fact that it conveniently excluded the medieval warm period.

He failed to mention that the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports are riddled with deliberate falsehoods and lies concerning the Amazon rain forests, the retreating Himalayan glaciers, which are not, and the African harvest scare.

The 'Progressive' in Chief's'  battle against climate change is not even original. The British people have been putting up with this nonsense for years. They even have a Department of Energy and Climate Change at the heart of their government, which is busy closing coal fired power stations and covering the countryside with bird shredding windmills which will not cover the shortfall in energy.

**The coal industry in Great Britain has been destroyed and the aftermath is not a pretty sight. The coal mining communities and the people of America in general would do well to look at their brothers and sisters over the pond.

Energy prices have already 'skyrocketed' and many of the most vulnerable are in fuel poverty, although the government, in an act of generosity with taxpayers money, give pensioners a 'winter fuel allowance' of $310 per year. This allowance is not means tested therefore it is given to millionaires and billionaires like Sir Richard Branson of Virgin fame. This stupidity means that Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates would qualify for a 'winter fuel allowance if he were British.

The former coal mining communities are devastated and reduced to welfare addiction, poor educational standards, drink and drug fuelled crime, family breakdown and poor health.

A multitude of areas in the former South Wales coalfield have been classified by the government as 'deprived areas' although after my recent tour of the former coalfield  that can be taken with a pinch of salt.

The recent story from Blaenau Gwent would be laughable if it wasn't so serious. In this former coal mining area 1 in 6 of the population are being prescribed Prozac to combat depression. There were no figures for the rest of the coalfield but if the same is true then the whole area will be plagued by violent, suicidal zombies suffering from sexual dysfunction.

What is not surprising is that area has been represented by the hard left of the Labour Party for generations. The population obviously hasn't made the connection between the Labour Party, socialism, economic failure and poverty.

Now that the voters are addicted to Prozac, I don't suppose the real world will encroach upon their pharmaceutically induced LaLa Land and change their voting patterns.

** To clarify, the British coal industry was not destroyed in pursuit of 'combating climate change' but by the communist run National Union of Mineworkers during their attempt to bring down the democratically elected government.

Mrs Thatcher's Last Laugh - Arthur Scargill Humiliated In Court Decision

With the news that Arthur Scargill has lost his court case which he brought against the remnants of his own union, this is an opportune moment to reflect on the history of this hypocrite who put revolutionary politics before the interests of his members, destroying entire communities in the process.

Free marketeer and avowed anti-socialist Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the same time as the two unrepentant communists Arthur Scargill and Mick McGahey took control of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Great Britain's most powerful union.

Coal mining was one of the biggest industries in Great Britain which not only powered the industrial revolution but the Royal Navy as well. The entire economy was powered by coal and the industry employed hundreds of thousands of workers with the NUM having a membership approaching half a million. The NUM wielded immense power and in 1974 they used this power to bring down the elected government of Prime Minister Edward Heath.

The discovery of oil in the 1920's  and the conversion of the Royal Navy ships from coal to oil started the decline of the coal industry, this fact combined with the availability of cheap coal from overseas made the nationalised British coal industry uncompetitive and an unsustainable drain on the economy.

The Labour governments of Wilson and Callaghan, under their infamous Plan for Coal, were forced to rationalise the industry which inevitably meant that unproductive mines would have to be closed.

These closures were continued by Edward Heath's Conservative government and were used as an excuse for the NUM to strike work. By using blackmail, intimidation and the usual threats of violence they brought the country to its knees and the downfall of the Heath government. 

Due to the timing of the strike this sad period in British history was known as the 'winter of discontent', there were power cuts, a three day working week, mountains of uncollected rubbish in the streets and even the dead were left unburied.

This collapse of the economy resulted in a general election where power was handed to the union controlled Labour Party who promptly caved in to the NUM. Regardless of the collapsed economy and the dire state of the coal industry, wages were increased by a staggering 20%.

This was a typical piece of socialist logic which did nothing for the long term viability of the industry and only made matters worse in the longer term.

Enough is written about Margaret Thatcher's ideology and motivation elsewhere, but the same is not widely known about Scargill and McGahey.

Arthur Scargill followed his father into coal mining and communism. While his father was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), young Arthur was a member of the Young Communist League (YCL).

As part of the infiltration strategy of communists into mainstream democratic socialist parties, which is laid down in Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, Arthur Scargill resigned the YCL and joined the Labour Party.

Scargill resigned from the Labour Party when it dropped Clause IV from its constitution, this clause committed the party to nationalisation of all the major industries and utilities. He formed his breakaway Socialist Labour Party which went on to get an average of 1% of the popular vote in subsequent elections.

Scargill was and still is a revolutionary Marxist and like the rest of his ilk he is a hypocrite of the very highest order.

What the membership of the NUM didn't know while they were striking work and impoverishing their families was that Arthur Scargill was busy setting himself up with some not very communist sweet deals.

There was to be none of this Marxist nonsense about abolishing private property for our Arthur. He bought his own piece of real estate in Barnsley, after which he negotiated the fuel bills, the security system and even his own tax returns to be paid for out of his members subscriptions for the rest his life.

Scargill also negotiated an all expenses paid apartment in the *Barbican Centre, London, for his use and that of his surviving widow, paid for from the members' union dues. Somewhere along the line he also negotiated a 'Papa' Doc Duvalier President for Life deal.

* For information, the Barbican Centre is an up market housing development in London occupied by the operators of the capitalist system such as bankers, stockbrokers and various other 1%'ers. The very people that Scargill professes to despise.

Arthur Scargill had nice things to say about Stalin and also claimed that the ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin "explained the real world".

Mick McGahey, Scargill's deputy in the NUM, was a life long unrepentant communist who's father was a founder of the Communist Party of Great Britain, when that dissolved, McGahey joined the Scottish Communist Party.

McGahey was a communist fanatic who supported the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the subsequent repression of the Hungarian people. He is also quoted a s saying that the USSR "is a beacon of hope for humanity." 

Looking back at 1974 strike and the downfall of the Heath government, Scargill and McGahey were going for a repeat performance with the Thatcher government, a government and Prime Minister they ideologically opposed and hated with a passion.

The only thing that they needed was an excuse to strike work.

Armed the knowledge that many of Britain's coal mines were over 100 years old and suffered geological problems thus making them uneconomical, Scargill and McGahey committed the NUM to fight any mine closures except on the grounds of exhaustion.

As a result of this commitment the entire coal industry needed a massive subsidy from the taxpayer and this made the industries that were dependent on coal, such as the steel industry and electricity generation,  economically uncompetitive.

In order to rescue the bankrupt British economy, which was sunk by previous Labour Party mismanagement, the Thatcher government proposed to remove the subsidy and close uneconomic mines. Scargill and McGahey had their excuse and a year long strike followed.

Scargill and McGahey refused to hold a national strike ballot, instead by using the 'no mine closure rule' they struck work at  a mine that was earmarked for closure.

They went on to abuse the traditional loyalty of the mine working communities by demanding  sympathy action, they resorted to bullying, thuggery and violence to browbeat dissident communities into line.

Mrs Thatcher had read Scargill and McGahey like a book, she knew what was coming and had long prepared for their politically motivated strike by stockpiling supplies of coal. Her government also organised a fleet of trucks ready for its transportation if required.

More controversially she put the police on a war footing to make sure that any mine worker who wished to work would be able to do so without intimidation.

The rest is history, the NUM split with the formation of the Union of Democratic Miners (UDM), the strike collapsed and with it the entire coal industry.

Thanks to Arthur Scargill and Mick McGahey membership of the once mighty NUM plummeted from a peak of 450,000 to around 1,700 today. ( that's not a typo it really is only seventeen hundred)

Instead of a managed introduction of new forms of power generation, the political ambitions of Scargill and McGahey resulted in the industry being shutdown within a matter of years destroying entire communities in the process.

Mick McGahey departed for the great communist utopia in the sky in 1999 to spend eternity with his hero Stalin, the inhabitants of his home town of Cambuslang in socialist Scotland have insulted the murdered victims of Stalin by erecting a memorial in McGahey's honour.

Arthur Scargill still endures with the unshakable belief that the collapse of the coal industry and the most powerful trade union in history was nothing to do with him, it was all Thatchers fault.

It doesn't enter Scargill's thick skull that the duly elected Prime Minister of some 60 million people, including the tens of thousands of NUM members, had a duty to stand up to the bullying and blackmail of two communists fanatics who continually failed to get elected to parliament under their true banner.

Currently, the NUM is in financial straits and can no longer finance the perks of their 'President for Life'. The burden of this largess, as always, falls on the membership.

The NUM reviewed his contract and were unable to understand how these perks found they way in and if they are appropriate.

The financial plight of his union doesn't bother Scargill, his priorities have always been himself and his political agenda, this always took precedence over the interests of his members.

He took his own union to court in order to continue with his 'entitlements' regardless of their affordability.

The judge found in favour of the NUM so Scargill now has to finance his own extravagant bourgeois lifestyle.

Perhaps he could start selling the Big Issue or sitting outside the House of Lords with his dog on a piece of string waiting for his old friend the multi millionaire Marxist Neil Kinnock to pass by and drop a few coins in his battered cup.

This is a final ignominious and humiliating end to a once powerful union baron who abused that power in order to pursue his perverted ideology and a reason for the Iron Lady to indulge in one last laugh to herself.