Sunday, October 19, 2008

Kick Fascists out of Trade Unions

One worrying thing that I picked up yesterday at SERTUC was that soon the House of Commons will be debating a clause that would make it very difficult to expel fascists from trade unions.

Section 18 of the Employment Bill was originally brought in by the government following the success of ASLEF in the European Court over the expulsion of a BNP member. The House of Lords have amended the section to such an extent that many fear that fascists would not be able to be expelled. Fascism is clearly incompatible with trade unionism.

On Saturday Unite pleaded with all unions who have parliamentary influence to lobby MPs to make sure that this amendment is knocked back. The measure may be debated as early as this week apparently.

Check out the Hope Not Hate website here where you can download a template letter to send to your MP.

5 comments:

Robert said...

Does that include Labour party members because some of them have problems knowing immigration is not the worse and most evil thing happening here.

John Gray said...

Now, now Robert, shame on you - we are talking about real fascists and real Nazi's.

Anonymous said...

Unionists are the new fascists.

Anonymous said...

I can think of loads of groups that should be expelled, not just the BNP?

John Gray said...

Hi Anon 1
That’s not very clever is it?
Northern Ireland proddies will not be happy!

Hi Anon 2
Yep – you are right – not just the BNP, but NF, Combat 18 etc