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What do think the biggest changes in our trade have been?
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<blockquote data-quote="Evans Electric" data-source="post: 458804" data-attributes="member: 1408"><p>I was a union member for years .. when I joined the ETU was ripping it's self apart getting rid of the communist leadership. All voting for leadership was rigged and the way for communists to try bringing down democratic governments was to manipulate the working man through the power of strike. </p><p></p><p>The plumbers joined and the union became the EEPTU ...the leadership elections were monitored by the Electoral Reform Society .</p><p></p><p>However the shop floor leaders as in Shop Stewards retained their communist or left wing leanings and continued to maintain their little empires and their grip on power . I never met one who wasn't a bolshie ****** . They even spoke in the same vernacular . </p><p></p><p>They used the electrical members in power generating and leading industries like steel and the car manufacturers as cannon fodder in their war against governments , mainly Conservative .......... and couldn't give a toss for contracting sparks because they couldn't be organized . </p><p></p><p>They didn't like me because when they inspected my card , which was often , it was marked to show I didn't pay the Labour Party levy ...didn't go down well . </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Evans Electric, post: 458804, member: 1408"] I was a union member for years .. when I joined the ETU was ripping it's self apart getting rid of the communist leadership. All voting for leadership was rigged and the way for communists to try bringing down democratic governments was to manipulate the working man through the power of strike. The plumbers joined and the union became the EEPTU ...the leadership elections were monitored by the Electoral Reform Society . However the shop floor leaders as in Shop Stewards retained their communist or left wing leanings and continued to maintain their little empires and their grip on power . I never met one who wasn't a bolshie ****** . They even spoke in the same vernacular . They used the electrical members in power generating and leading industries like steel and the car manufacturers as cannon fodder in their war against governments , mainly Conservative .......... and couldn't give a toss for contracting sparks because they couldn't be organized . They didn't like me because when they inspected my card , which was often , it was marked to show I didn't pay the Labour Party levy ...didn't go down well . [/QUOTE]
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