I'm in a weird place at the moment. Half way between being very proud and very, very fucking annoyed.
You see I got my union magazine through the post last week. And the President has been at it again. This time she said members' motions to conference were '...ludicrous and sometimes the result of a small minority with extreme views', said that we were '...sometimes seen as a far left union, out on the fringes.' and asked 'is that where you want to be?'
Don't believe me? Read this.
Flaming cheek.
After the last issue where she said we were only interested in doing 'sexy political' stuff this is a real smack in the face to all the hard working reps and most of all, the members who bother to write, debate and pass motions through their branches. How dare she? To say we are out on the fringes is playing directly into the hands of those who think that PCS are Trotskyite troublemakers.
As an aside, I preferred to be known as a member of the Feral Underclass. It sounded kinda wild and sexy in a Pat Benetar 'Love Is A Battlefield' type way. Seriously, the sheer amount of net curtain that was sacrificed for that video is just mind blowing!
But I digress.
Sexy, Political, Ludicrous, Fringe.
What she doesn't seem to get is that when you work for the Govt and when it is the Govt is attacking you then everything you do to fight is going to be political. It really is that simple. The attacks on the Public Sector are ideological. The attacks on the Public Sector have no economic basis and are just a way for David 'Child Of Thatcher' Cameron to cut harder, faster and deeper than that bitch could ever have wet dreamed.
With Nick 'Lapdog' Clegg at his side. The man who sold his soul and his party for his shot at power. How does it feel to be fucked so royally and so publicly Nick huh? I hope it really hurts you fucker.
Anyone who has read previous blogs of mine knows that there is a special place in my bile duct for Ed Milliband and he will now be joined by Ed Balls after he cracked jokes on Twitter while the NHS lay dying.
But I digress. It's all political.
Sexy? Apart from the fact that PCS have the best looking activists (joking, honest), what we do can hardly be called sexy.
Yeah baby, sort out that car park rota... Oooooh you know I love it when you negotiate terms and conditions... hardly TU Porn really is it? Unless you really like car parks. 'Nuff said on that I think.
Ludicrous? I don't think so. The members write the motions. They get debated at AGMs. A vote is taken. The motion goes to conference to be debated again.There they will fall or become Union Policy.
Is it the motions themselves or the democracy she finds ludicrous? Either way I am hoping that it won't be an issue after the upcoming GEC elections. I am hoping that democracy will do its thing and bloody well get her replaced with someone who actually understands and respects the very democracy that got her bloody elected!
Fringe. Really??? We're not on the fringes, we are in the middle of the fight to protect our members' jobs, pay and pensions! We have led industrial action over privatisation and will not hesitate to do so again if that is what it takes to win. Fringe. Pffft!
It is the reason that we now have the hashtag #pcsbringingsexyback If she wants to use sexy as an insult then we'll just reclaim it!
So yeah, pretty pissed off with all that, but on the other hand really proud of the anger that has become apparent from our members over her total disregard for their contribution to their union.
And believe me, they are not happy. Now they just need to show their displeasure when it comes to ballot time.
They need to vote Kerry Fairless for Group President.
You see I got my union magazine through the post last week. And the President has been at it again. This time she said members' motions to conference were '...ludicrous and sometimes the result of a small minority with extreme views', said that we were '...sometimes seen as a far left union, out on the fringes.' and asked 'is that where you want to be?'
Don't believe me? Read this.
Flaming cheek.
After the last issue where she said we were only interested in doing 'sexy political' stuff this is a real smack in the face to all the hard working reps and most of all, the members who bother to write, debate and pass motions through their branches. How dare she? To say we are out on the fringes is playing directly into the hands of those who think that PCS are Trotskyite troublemakers.
As an aside, I preferred to be known as a member of the Feral Underclass. It sounded kinda wild and sexy in a Pat Benetar 'Love Is A Battlefield' type way. Seriously, the sheer amount of net curtain that was sacrificed for that video is just mind blowing!
But I digress.
Sexy, Political, Ludicrous, Fringe.
What she doesn't seem to get is that when you work for the Govt and when it is the Govt is attacking you then everything you do to fight is going to be political. It really is that simple. The attacks on the Public Sector are ideological. The attacks on the Public Sector have no economic basis and are just a way for David 'Child Of Thatcher' Cameron to cut harder, faster and deeper than that bitch could ever have wet dreamed.
With Nick 'Lapdog' Clegg at his side. The man who sold his soul and his party for his shot at power. How does it feel to be fucked so royally and so publicly Nick huh? I hope it really hurts you fucker.
Anyone who has read previous blogs of mine knows that there is a special place in my bile duct for Ed Milliband and he will now be joined by Ed Balls after he cracked jokes on Twitter while the NHS lay dying.
But I digress. It's all political.
Sexy? Apart from the fact that PCS have the best looking activists (joking, honest), what we do can hardly be called sexy.
Yeah baby, sort out that car park rota... Oooooh you know I love it when you negotiate terms and conditions... hardly TU Porn really is it? Unless you really like car parks. 'Nuff said on that I think.
Ludicrous? I don't think so. The members write the motions. They get debated at AGMs. A vote is taken. The motion goes to conference to be debated again.There they will fall or become Union Policy.
Is it the motions themselves or the democracy she finds ludicrous? Either way I am hoping that it won't be an issue after the upcoming GEC elections. I am hoping that democracy will do its thing and bloody well get her replaced with someone who actually understands and respects the very democracy that got her bloody elected!
Fringe. Really??? We're not on the fringes, we are in the middle of the fight to protect our members' jobs, pay and pensions! We have led industrial action over privatisation and will not hesitate to do so again if that is what it takes to win. Fringe. Pffft!
It is the reason that we now have the hashtag #pcsbringingsexyback If she wants to use sexy as an insult then we'll just reclaim it!
So yeah, pretty pissed off with all that, but on the other hand really proud of the anger that has become apparent from our members over her total disregard for their contribution to their union.
And believe me, they are not happy. Now they just need to show their displeasure when it comes to ballot time.
They need to vote Kerry Fairless for Group President.
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