You might
think that a group of members of our largest public service trade union, organised around support
for the well-established leadership of the union, would have a robust
self-confidence in their own position.
You might
think that when a maverick
individual blogger made criticisms of their (almost coherent) “Stronger
UNISON pledge” they would be well able to rebut such criticism and would be
proud to assert their confident defence of their own position.
You might
think almost anything!
Best not
though.
The
feeble-minded adherents of the confused and confusing “stronger
UNISON” pledge have three times deleted a link to an earlier
post on this blog when it was posted to their Facebook.
What we can
clearly see is that those lay members prepared to subordinate themselves to the
(officer-led) “Team Dave” and their
recent electoral misbehaviour are not prepared to engage in dialogue with
other lay members.
It is almost
enough to make someone want to go into some detail in examining the records of
the individuals who are so disrespectful of UNISON members and UNISON
democracy.
Perhaps it
is more than almost enough.
Perhaps that
will be fun?
The status
quo in UNISON is over.
So much work to do... UNISONaction candidates have sent out addresses that indicate an entrenched service-oriented bias (albeit a more 'left-wing' one).
ReplyDeleteIt has to be a transformation from the top right down to the bottom.
Here's to the start of a long process