Posted: 30 June 2005 at 7:59pm | IP Logged

Apologies if I posted the following in the wrong section of the forum earlier, but I just felt so , so here it is again......

On the subject of Live 8, there's a story in todays Times about the RMT union changing the date of their next one day strike from Friday to Saturday, so as "to maximise the impact and put greater pressure on the company." A union spokesman is quoted as saying "We are not going to weep crocodile tears over the consequences of our industrial action… if we are going to have the desired effect of getting the company to the table to negotiate."

I've been a committed trade unionist (different union) for the last 23 years - I've just fired off the first "disgusted of Tunbridge Wells" letter I think I've ever sent, asking them to reconsider. Their email address is info@rmt.org.uk  if anyone else is similarly inclined...