by gray_marian » Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:21 pm
May be a hard to replace for the R.M.T. Workers. He was not an Arthur Scargill character he was a very clever negotiator and always had the good sense and foresight to pull out with the best deal for his workers. That's what he was paid for. London tube drivers are on a £52,000 a year wage. I remember him on Question Time not that long ago, an historian told him he was disrupting the ordinary working man by calling lightning strikes on the London underground yet he never lost any of his £145,000 a year wage his reply...' Your quite correct its at times like this I earn what I am paid to do look after my members best interest'. Like him or not, he stood for what he believed in and worked for his union's members interests one of the last remaining flat cap British working mans union leader and a great speaker and character. However, only in the UK can an avowed Communist speak his mind in total freedom - and call a strike. May not though be missed by the passengers on the Tube....Still, only 52 far too young to die R.I.P......
No wish to offend, just stating another view.