Labour Betrays Workers Yet Again

The Labour Party abandons it’s commitments to gig economy workers but the union leaders are complicit

As we proceed towards an election the Labour Party leadership has been making sure that it’s absolute dedication to serving British capitalism is clear to the ruling class. This means backtracking on even the meagre promises that it had previously committed to. One such example is on (so called) gig economy workers, who are often on casual contracts with minimal rights and are all very low paid. Until recently the Labour Party was promising to end the multiple levels of rights that exist within existing employment law and introduce one category of “worker” for all but the self-employed. This would by no means have been a panacea but it may have been a step in the right direction if properly enforced and backed up by a change in the law to make unionising workers in the gig economy easier. But even this commitment has been dropped following the recent meeting of the Labour Party national policy forum. This was followed by the usual ludicrous claims from Labour Party front benchers that they are a party which is both “pro worker and pro business”. Anyone with a functioning brain knows that this is an impossibility but of course Starmer and the collection of barely sentient offal, known as the shadow cabinet, continue to pretend that this fairy tale is a reality. The leaders of Unison and GMB, who together represent a trail of foul slime that oozes its way from congress house to the red benches of the House of Lords, have shamefully agreed to let this proceed because the idea of objecting to anything a labour party leader does is unthinkable to these wretched bureaucrats. The General Secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, refused to agree to the outcome of the policy forum but her protests on this ring hollow. She and the Unite leadership, a collection of fools, frauds and traitors, have already backed continued affiliation to the labour party, Starmer already has Unites money in the bank and he knows very well that when it comes to the next election that Sharon Graham will be telling over one million Unite members to vote for him and his wretched, anti worker party. The only language that Starmer and the labour party leaders understand is force and Unite has the ability to damage his ability to win the next election but they continue to refuse to exercise that power. Workers cannot rely on the “left” of the union bureaucracy to do the right thing here, they must be forced via a mass campaign of disaffiliation being waged from the ranks of the union movement. Only when the working class takes the power away from the careerists, the cowards and the frauds who are leading our movement down yet another dead end will we start to see progress.