Trade union bullies have become enemies of working people after plotting more strikes to ruin things we love

AS the trade union bullies plot more strikes, their contempt for the British people becomes increasingly clear.

Blinded by self-interest, gripped by left-wing ideology and consumed by greed, they have lost all concept of public service.

Their aim is to exploit us, not meet our needs.

They like to pose as the champions of justice fighting oppression, but in reality they are a bunch of entitled wreckers.

Misery is their method, chaos their currency.

Only this week, the National Education Union (NEU), which represents teachers, held yet another mass walkout in schools in pursuit of a hefty pay claim, following the rejection of the Government’s reasonable offer of a 4.3 per cent rise and a one-off payment of £1,000.

So, after all the recent disruption caused by the Covid pandemic, the betrayal of pupils continues.

But the tinpot revolutionaries at the top of the NEU don’t care.

What really motivates them is demanding more cash and spreading the socialist gospel.

According to Daniel Kebede, the newly elected general secretary of the union, the current dispute is not just about pay but also “taking back control of the education system from a brutally racist state”.

Across the public sector, ugly militancy is intensifying.

Starting this Sunday, the Royal College of Nursing is to hold another stoppage, deliberately threatening the health of patients in pursuit of their extravagant pay demand.

The RCN bosses, led by the abrasive Pat Cullen, had planned to mount a 48-hour strike but on Thursday the High Court ruled that such industrial action would be unlawful, since the union’s legal mandate from its last strike ballot expires on Monday night.

In failing to abide by the law, the High Court judge declared that the RCN had acted with “a high degree of unreasonableness”.

Such a term could be applied to most of the unions, including the train drivers of Aslef and the rail workers of the RMT.

Together, these two organisations have called a further wave of strikes in the early summer, cynically timed to coincide with a series of popular events such as the FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Manchester City, the Derby and the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool.

This choice of strike days reveals the real nastiness of the militants.

Not content with damaging healthcare, hurting commuters, and undermining education, they want to ruin our entertainment.

In their warped mindset, our leisure time is another arena for punishment.

The cruel mentality that wants to make it difficult for football fans to travel from the North West is the same one that inflicts despair on travellers by crippling the Passport Agency or anger on motorists by paralysing the DVLA.

With their aggressive, arrogant disdain for the public, the trade unions are now the enemies of the working class.

Warped mindset

The labour movement was originally created as the voice of the oppressed proletariat.

Today it is largely the mouth-piece of subsidised privilege.

Badly-paid workers and struggling families count for little in the modern trade union culture of the public sector.

Instead the loudest noises come from those who are already comparatively affluent, like the train drivers on average pay of nearly £50,000 a year, or junior doctors, whose pay can go up to an average of £40,000 after their second year of training, not including the generous pension contributions they receive from the taxpayer.

Yet the spirit of grievance, however unjustified, permeates even the top ranks of the state payroll.

So the First Division Association, which represents senior civil servants, is conducting a strike ballot, even though the median salary for a senior civil servant is £82,550.

Even hospital consultants — whose basic salaries range from £88,000 to £119,000 — are considering industrial action.

This grotesque world of invented victimhood is perfectly embodied in Dr Robert Laurenson, a co-chairman of the British Medical Association and junior doctors’ leader, who is a classic example of radical entitlement.

Dragged down

Dr Laurenson is a director of his family’s multimillion-pound investment firm and attended the exclusive Sevenoaks School in Kent, where boarding fees are up to £47,000 a year.

What makes this workforce expenditure all the more aggravating is that it fails to deliver the goods.

Low productivity, huge backlogs, weak management and long waiting lists now characterise much of the public sector.

The NHS and social care are mired in crisis.

Police clear-up rates are at a record low, court delays at a record high.

It is now frustratingly difficult to get an appointment with a GP, even though family doctors are paid on average £112,000-a-year.

They too are now talking about a strike in support of even higher pay.

Meanwhile, the civil service is now a by-word for creaking, paralysing bureaucracy.

Whitehall used to be hailed by supporters as a Rolls-Royce machine.

Today it is a clapped-out camper van full of whining radicals.

Sir Horace Cutler, the witty Tory politician of the 1970s, was once asked how many people work for London Transport.

“About half of them,” he replied.

Those words are just as appropriate for our times, as the state is dragged down by soaring rates of absenteeism, failed working practices and mass walkouts.

The biggest loser is the hard-working and increasingly fed-up public which has to pay for this whole racket.