Unite union leader Len McCluskey: The Nazis made trade unionists wear armbands

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Telegraph

By Charlotte Krol,

Len McCluskey has vowed never to wear a red triangle armband on the picket line as he likened it to being a Nazi concentration camp prisoner.

The Government's Trade Union Bill could require picket supervisors to wear an armband as part of a wider tightening of the rules to strike. The controversial legislation would impose new minimum thresholds before strikes would be legal.

Unite leader Mr McCluskey suggested a deal on thresholds could be possible if the Government concedes methods of making it easier to carry out ballots - such as letting them take place online for the first time.

Snip: Mr McCluskey, who won a huge standing ovation at the end of his speech, told activists in Brighton the legislation is "unnecessary, illiberal and spiteful".

FULL story and video at link.


Len McCluskey the leader of Britain's Unite union speaks at the annual Labour Party Conference in Brighton (Reuters/Toby Melville)

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[mopinko]

1. jeeebus.

what next?

[roguevalley]

2. camps. Brands on our foreheads. I will of course by them be sharpening the tines of my pitchfork.

[mopinko]

4. tattoos.

[bananas]

3. Picketing will have to be done in permitted free-speech zones on the outskirts of town? nt

[Enthusiast]

5. Kicked and recommended!

[bobthedrummer]

6. I was an informational picket line Captain for the UFCW in a successful organizing campaign in WI

back in the early 90's. Now we still have Scott Walker et. al. who are taking away the labor rights won by bloodshed and strife in every criminal way possible with the Act 10 FASCIST gangsters.

The UK's New Labour Party isn't New-it's a colony of the BFEE.