There are many things that Unions and Traditional Conservatives have in common, we both support workers having a living wage, safety at work and dignity at work. We believe that workers are every bit as important as Management in making a firm profitable. Further we believe that all of those who work for the same Company or economic enterprise are on the same side.
So it could be said that Traditional Conservative support Unions, unfortunately thats abit simplistic because build into most Unions is an assumption that we reject. The assumption comes from Marxism and it says that every class is in conflict with every other class. Meaning that the working class and the management class are always at war, they are enemies and the working relationship is one of exploitation. The management class is always trying to exploit the working class. They cannot help themselves, only those who support the workers can see this clearly and as they can see it they can fight it. Ultimately only a Socialist or even better a Communist society can stop this exploitation.
This explains why Industrial disputes get so bitter, many Unionists believe they are always being exploited and they act accordingly. No matter how Management is really behaving. This is in reality in no ones interest as it hurts everyone.
Traditional Conservatives reject absolutely the idea of class warfare. We believe that different social classes provide mutual support and help those in each class to perform the jobs and tasks best suited to them. As each social class performs different tasks they cannot be enemies as they rely on the other social classes to perform tasks they cannot.
In short Labourers are as important to society as Doctors, it could be argued that Labourers are more important as society would cease to function quite quickly without Labourers. Without them who would load the trucks, or repair roads, or pick up our garbage. Not having any Doctors is only a problem for the sick or injured, in time that will include us all. That might be years or even decades away, there is no way our society can survive for anywhere near a year without manual labour. There are no surplus areas of society. We believe in a balanced society, not in class conflict.
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Trades Unions have been militant for years in the UK, of which Northern Ireland (where we live,) is a part. The leaders of these Unions live rather well, yet talk a great deal about the plight of the working man and, although they supposedly are opposed to capitalism, they are only too happy to enjoy the opportunities afforded them by capitalism. In Northern Ireland, any time we hear of an employee taking his employer to an industrial tribunal, those judging the case more often than not come down on the side of the employee. This is no surprise because those in authority in industrial tribunals have decided that employers have NO rights, only responsibilities. Those actual words were spoken by an individual who works for an organisation that is heavily biased in favour of employees (especially female employees.)
ReplyDeleteDear Mrs. White
ReplyDeleteYou give a great example of how built in to the system is the idea of class warfare. The employer, simply by existing shows that they exist to exploit the employee.
Of course to any person with common sense this is stupid, the unemployed worker is much more open to exploitation than one in secure employment.
Mark Moncrieff
Mr.Moncrieff,
ReplyDeleteI do not fully understand your reply to my comment, are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? The point I was making about Trades Unions is that they are mostly radical, Marxist organisations today, at least in our part of the world they are, and, although some of them did assist employees in times past who worked for a pittance in terrible conditions, that is not the main reason for their existence today. They are out to gain the upper hand over the employers and to force them to concede defeat in virtually every dispute so the unions become even more and ever more powerful. The unions hold us all to ransom with various strikes etc and they punish any employee who dares to challenge them by crossing a picket line and attempting to reach their workplace. The unions in the UK are pro-homosexual and pro-feminist etc meaning they have a revolutionary agenda. The feminists target is the so-called patriarchy and the "collaborating" traitor of a housewife (like me,) the target of the "gay" lobby is Biblical morality (they want to legalise God's laws out of existence,) and the target of the unions is the employer, who now has no rights.
Dear Mrs. White
ReplyDeleteI agree with your comments.
Mark Moncrieff