A message from Patrick Harrington, our General Secretary. Adam Walker Union President Scarcely a day goes by without a report crossing my desk of one group or another of workers being exploited. I was shocked to read recently that many construction sites in Merseyside were putting the lives of builders at risk. In just one day of 14 sites visited by Health and Safety 13 failed to come up to scratch. Today I read about how Restaurant owners are using legal loopholes to pocket money given as tips for their staff. Examples of the way that employers are putting profit before ethics can be seen all around us. That's why we need Unions - to stop the exploitation and stand-up for the workers. More than this we need a Union that doesn't collude with Management in 'partnership' deals. A Union that is clear as to its function and who it represents. Sadly in many places Union Reps have sold-out or given up. They often have more in common with the management than their fellow workers. Being a Union Rep in some places is an alternative way of climbing the promotion ladder. I say it is time for this to change. Solidarity exists to represent workers not to dine or socialise with Management. We often send in Reps who don't work for the same company. The company, therefore, has no leverage over them - it can't offer promotion or other inducements or threaten career trouble. They have no power over our Reps. When I hear from Posties about their discontent with the CWU I am saddened. There are many good people in such Unions. People with the interests of the ordinary worker at heart. Sadly they are out-weighed by those who collude with a political and economic class estranged from the concerns of ordinary folk.

Patrick Harrington General Secretary The Lemming Effect Is This YOU ? The Enemy Within Keep your eyes & ears open !

To those good-hearted Union men and women I make an appeal - join with us to build a real alternative unfettered by the careerists and backstabbers. Join Solidarity and make a difference!   ... www.solidaritytradeunion.org    Email ... solidaritygb@aol.com Patrick Harrington

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July 2008
Bread and Butter Union Work.What kind of cases does Solidarity handle for members?
Most members know that we defend those persecuted on account of their political beliefs. These tend to be high-profile cases.
They are by no means the norm, however. Most of our cases are bread and- butter work for any Trade Union.
Below we give some recent examples. We have not given details of names and workplaces to maintain confidentiality. Continued
The First Issue
Solidarity urges Posties to vote "No" Solidarity has some that hold dual membership with the CWU. We have also been contacted by some posties who are not yet members of ours asking our opinion of the deal and advice on which way to vote.
Here it is - the deal between the CWU union and Royal Mail to end the dispute over pay, pensions and conditions is a sell-out.
It is surrender, a capitulation to a management agenda. It is a betrayal. 130,000 workers took eight days of official strike action but the union’s executive voted to accept the offer and recommend it to the membership.
Only five out of 14 executive members voted to reject it. The deal does not meet the demand for decent pay and pensions.
Nor does it remove the threat implied by Royal Mail's demand for 'total flexibility'. Continued

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The Lemming Effect
Or why the very people being damaged the most by 'Nu Labour' Continue to vote Labour !!
From http://www.rense.com

They are victims of a psychological affliction known as "the lemming effect". Lemmings are small rodents who have been known to follow each other as they charge to their deaths into raging rivers or off of cliffs. Lemminghood is an innate psychological phenomenon, present in most mammals and observable in common people as well the most sophisticated and educated elites. Lemminghood is not an intellectual phenomenon - it is psychological. As such, no socio-economic class is immune to its strangulating effect. A grant-seeking university scientist can be a lemming just as much as a fashion obsessed teen-age girl. One blindly follows the latest trendy theory while the other blindly follows the latest trendy clothing style. What's the difference? Neither can resist the force of nature.

The power to fit in with one's social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic behind an opinion doesn't count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion. Man, like lemming, behaves collectively. And it could be no other way. Naturally, the individual must be equipped with this trait. Otherwise, the smallest steps toward civilization could never have been made. Lemminghood is a survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people. However, as with all natural phenomena, this tendency can be manipulated and used for harmful purposes. You can fool some of the 'Sheeple' all of the time, You can fool all of the 'Sheeple' some of the time, But you can't fool all of the 'Sheeple' all of the time. Sean Bryson It is this lemming effect which enables entire segments of a society to lose their sense of judgment all at the same time. This research paper will likely be wasted on many lemmings. For lemmings, denial is a basic psychological defense mechanism used to not only shield themselves from unpleasant realities, but also to reassure themselves that they will still fit within the acceptable range of opinion held by their peer group.

Lemmings are absolutely terrified at the thought of being labeled as an "extremist" or a "conspiracy theorist". At all costs, their beliefs must always be on the "right" side of the issue and conform within the boundaries of their lemming peers. Lemmings simply cannot bear the burden of responsibility, or the discomfort, which comes with thinking independently. They'll resist any efforts to change their misguided beliefs with all their mental energy.

The Enemy Within

A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims,
and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. ***
- Cicero, Speech to the Roman Senate

*** Example ... Shut up and keep your job / wages today, but become extinct tomorrow !

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