Unions threatening strike action if males with a trans identity not allowed access to female toilets.

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GargoylesofBeelzebub · 16/05/2025 10:43

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14717831/amp/Civil-servants-threaten-strikes-transgender-toilets.html

I'm genuinely perplexed by what they hope to achieve here. The outcome can't be for the government just to ignore the law.

Will we find out how many members do actually support the Supreme Court ruling as surely a vote will be required?

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SionnachRuadh · 19/05/2025 08:17

BlackForestCake · 19/05/2025 00:04

When I was involved in the organised far left many years ago, we spent a lot of time trying to get motions passed about this or that cause in union branches. We thought that if we succeeded, as we sometimes did, it was evidence that the working masses were slowly coming over to our point of view.

What it actually meant was that the union machinery as a whole was increasingly disassociated from the working masses. None of the activists were really representative of the members, neither us nor the “right wing bureaucratic misleadership” that we thought we were fighting. The people left taking part in the life of the union were either highly motivated ideological people like us, or ambitious people trying to get a cushy job in the TUC or Labour Party.

The low level of engagement with the organisations of civil society is not a problem unique to trade unions, we see it in the historically low election turnouts and in the political parties as well, and it's corrosive to society.

When I was a union rep, our branch had over a thousand members on paper, but less than ten came to the average branch meeting. Sometimes I was the only person in the room who wasn't a member of Militant.

I ended up being a delegate to the local trades council because nobody else could be bothered. I can only say in my own defence that I didn't kid myself I was 'representative' of anything.

WishItWasAlwaysFriday · 19/05/2025 08:40

If one were a conspiracy theorist of higher level, one could think that someone is arranging these things to push women out of unions, away from protection and out of work eventually...

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