Who on earth on their Central Committee authorised them to break up a meeting at Acas (Acas for crying out loud!) which was trying in last ditch talks to reach an agreement on a bloody serious dispute between a trade union and management? I recognise in the videos some of the usual suspects who should know better. How can any real trade unionists now have anything to do with these cultists who attack workers?
Excuse the language but until today I had actually thought that the commonplace trade union joke about the initials SWP actually standing for “S**t on the Workers Party” - was infantile. Silly me.
Picture is from the BBC report showing Unite Joint General Secretary Tony Woodley showing incredible (and unusual) restraint while telling the moronic protestors that if they supported BA staff they would leave and let him get on with his job. I am sure that if TV cameras had not been present the former Ellesmere Port Vauxhall car factory steward would have undertaken some form of working class “direct action” with the largely public school, middle class “fantasy union” protestors to show them the error of their ways.
This is the Sky Report. “Some 100 people broke into the HQ of the conciliation service Acas where talks were ongoing to try and settle the long-running dispute.
But the discussions have now been abandoned after BA chief executive Willie Walsh was forced to leave the venue.
A furious Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of Unite, told Sky News the activists were "idiots" and "lunatics".
"Negotiations have not broken down, they have been broken up. We have made some progress but there is more to do," he said.
"This was a complete waste of an early-evening.
"I am so disappointed... that idiots, who think they are helping, but they are outsiders. They are lunatics."
When asked if talks would continue on Sunday, he added: "I hope so, but Willie Walsh was harangued and left the building quickly, understandably."
Unite members of BA cabin crew are set for a five-day walk-out from Monday unless an agreement can be reached”.
UPDATE: check out the fall out in Socialist Unity and UNISONactive
