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Oh you still want to talk Gnash!
I see youve been busy getting a screen grab!
I think it may be against the terms of the site to actually show PM`s!
So now your back and breaking the rules perhaps you could answer the question!
If Gnash1970 says im feenxp then I guess I must be!
Just watch how Gnash1970 destroys a thread.
looks like he has gone again.
Seeing as Gnash cant answer questions and shy`s away,
Please could a mod delete all the pathetic posts by Gnash and myself.
It would be nice not to allow Gnash to destroy another thread.
If Gnash1970 says im feenxp then I guess I must be!
Just watch how Gnash1970 destroys a thread.
The surname Cochrane, in Ireland, is also an Anglicisation of the Irish surname "Corcoran" in some parts of the country. Likewise Michael Collins' surname was an Anglicised form of "O'Coileain". This process happened to most native surnames in this country. McSheain also became "Johnson/Johnston". You are wrong.
To be honest I dont really care if the name is French.
I was just pushing Gnash to post his vile racist remarks that he had previously `made on Machine Nation.
But unfortunately he couldnt do that.
It appears that when gnash1970 is challenged on anything he shys away.
If Gnash1970 says im feenxp then I guess I must be!
Just watch how Gnash1970 destroys a thread.
Some moderation on this site.
Take a leaf out of Boards.ie, and ban the people who troll, namely Gnash1970.
Another thread destroyed.
For those who have suggested that this strike is a nationalistic strike and the left have no influence -
Update on the spreading strikes by construction engineers in the refinery and
power industry.
The Strike Committee at the Lindsey total refinery North Lincolnshire has adopted the following demands to end the dispute:
1. No victimisation of workers taking solidarity action.
2. All workers in UK to be covered by NAECI Agreement.
3. Union controlled registering of unemployed and locally skilled union members, with nominating rights as work becomes available.
4. Government and employer investment in proper training / apprenticeships for new generation of construction workers - fight for a future for young people.
5. All Immigrant labour to be unionised.
6. Trade Union assistance for immigrant workers - including interpreters - and access to Trade Union advice - to promote active integrated Trade Union Members. Build links with construction trade unions on the continent.
7. The re-instatement of John Mckewan.
A mass picket was held at the Lindsey total refinery North Lincolnshire on Monday 2 February 2009.
The mass meeting overwhelmingly voted for the demands proposed to them by the strike committee.
The demands were proposed by Keith Gibson a member of the six strong strike committee and also a member of the Socialist Party of England and Wales (a sister party of the Scoialist Party in Ireland) and John Mckewan, also on the strike committee and a supporter of the Socialist Party. John has been victimised by the refinery bosses for his organising of the strike action.
Prior to the meeting Keith and John (and their wives who had came to support the strikers) had seen some BNP members in the car park and told them that they were not welcome, with that the BNP cleared off. Socialist Party members gave out over 700 leaflets putting our position (which has now been adopted by the mass meeting of workers) and the leaflet was welcomed. One worker (before he read the leaflet) thought
that were giving out BNP leaflets and protested that he was not a racist and didn't support the BNP and was relieved when it was explained to him that they were Socialist Party leaflets and supported workers unity.
Keith Gibson is part of the negotiating committee that is now in discussions with the management at the refinery. The strike is continuing and looks as if it is spreading throughout the country at the time of writing with Sellafield and Heysham nuclear plants out.
Workers at other plants, according to the BBC, have also decided to stay out, these include Grangemouth and Longannon in Scotland. Warrington and Staythope in Newark are also out as well. The strikes are spreading from fiddlers ferry in Warrington to the Drax power station in Yorkshire.
The target of this campaign of strikes is now obvious
Attempts to paint the week of walkouts as anti-foreigner look silly now that Polish workers are joining the protests
Comments (…)
Seumas Milne
The Guardian, Thursday 5 February 2009
Article history
It has suited government ministers, the CBI and the most backward parts of the British media to present the multiple walkouts by engineering construction workers at refineries and power stations across Britain during the past week as a spasm of xenophobic protest against foreign workers and migration. For Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson and champions of free-market globalisation, this is an indefensible rejection of free trade based on a self-defeating misunderstanding of the facts. As Philippe Legrain wrote in the Guardian yesterday, the strikers have "got it all wrong" by allegedly blaming foreign workers for the mess we're in.
Meanwhile, the anti-union Mail, Express and Sun have expressed their honeyed "understanding" for people they would normally castigate as wreckers and layabouts. So ingrained has this view of the strikes become that BBC news on Monday managed to edit a striker's comment in such a way that it appeared he was refusing to work with Italian and Portuguese workers, when he was in fact complaining that he had no chance to do so.
But in reality - as Derek Simpson - joint leader of the Unite union, said, the campaign of strikes "is not about race or immigration, it's about class". This is a battle for jobs in a deepening recession and a backlash against the deregulated, race-to-the-bottom neoliberal model backed by New Labour for a decade and now so clearly falling apart.
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s.milne@guardian.co.uk
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Good post.
That would be me JRG. There was no way in hell that any government could give in to the strikers demands of "British job for British workers" (plastered all over the placards that you seem to have had trouble reading). The compromise agreement is the best that could be hoped for, or realistically achieved, and has bugger all to do with any statement by any strike committee.
Now your probubly going to go on as if this is a class struggle thing, because after you had a good go at ignoring the private sector workers suffering in other threads about this countries economic woes and the PS pensions levy, you think you can speak on behalf of Private sector workers and tell us what it is they need. Well you are wrong.
As you have demonstrated, you have not got the slightest clue as to what is going on in the private sector. You and the other 'socialists' have to cling to the committee statement, because it puts things in a language you can understand.
None of the 7 points the committee lists (after the fact) were on the placards and neither were they cited by your "committee insider" who spouted some sh*te about class struggle.
These were wild cat strikes. Workers walked out and the wider Unions had to play catch up. A few socilaists smuggled themselves in in the baggage, but can't take credit for the strike action and thus not a ounce of credit for what it achieved. But nice try.
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