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d of talk that gets frozen out of polite society in the city i expect the kind of reforms turner suggests could save the capitalists from their chaotic system but would hurt them in the short term by imposing costs to implement the regulation of apparently speculative or dangerous activities transnational corporations are lobbying against proposed eu regulations on derivatives which would require deals to go through a clearing house in the uk however there s nothing tough planned for the transnationals the government might be talking up food sovereignty the transition to low carbon manufacturing and so on but there s no plan to put the casino capitalists on a diet response to turner s views are revealing the chancellor alistair darling asks what would replace the city as a source of employment and tax revenues so at least he s willing to consider alternatives if laid out before him the shadow chancellor has remained silent for obvious reasons no one would believe a tory chancellor would crack down on big business london s buffoonish mayor boris johnson is perhaps the only uk politician willing to leap to the defence of the city an unnamed london banker is quoted in the ft as saying it is just illogical to want to shrink one of your most important industries unless it happens to have led to the destruction of all your other industries i suppose he goes on to say if you want to turn london into a marxist society then great yes comrade great full marks for hyperbole saint vince cable of the lib dems has welcomed what turner has said stating that that competitiveness arguments cannot be used to defend the status quo if you are engaged in behaviour that is dangerous to the wider british economy it is right some sectors may have to contract however nick clegg the liberal leader has said that taxation would be unworkable as a way of shrinking the city as global agreement would be required it was interesting to observe president nicholas sarkozy of france revealing his tough plans for reform to bank remuneration which will only be implemented if there s a global agreement which in political terms is a win win deal if the rest of the world says non he wins if the rest of the world says oui he wins what changes do i suggest then well given that the financial services sector could not exist without the taxpayer support that has been given the government should ensure that restructuring takes place with the following modest reforms voluntary redundancies only and terms and conditions respected for the pay and pensions of bank staff on low to middle incomes workers in the financial services industry should not be made to pay for the greed of their employers executive pay pensions and other benefits should be capped at all financial institutions even those in which the government has no shareholding if executives want to flee elsewhere let them there are plenty of talented people willing to take their place and be justly rewarded to prevent future banking crises the nationalised banks should be mutualised rather than be privatised mutual financial institutions the credit unions building societies and cooperative bank have served their members customers and behaved responsibly posted in uncatagorised tags banking capitalism cooperatives liberal democrats neoliberalism privatisation public ownership recession socialism tories 8 comments passengers want public transport not private profit friday august 28 2009 charliemarks a good article in the latest socialist bus passengers will not have been surprised by a recent report from the office of fair trading oft accusing bus companies of milking public subsidies and taking advantage of the free bus passes enjoyed by the over 60s and people with disabilities calvin payne sheffield despite deregulation in the 1980s bus companies now receive annual subsidies totalling 1 2 billion companies profit from successful routes while claiming public money to subsidise the less profitable ones such as those used by school children and the elderly public money is spent adding to the profits of some of the biggest companies in the country under the threat of service withdrawal or reduction these companies receive the equivalent adult fare whenever a free pass holder uses the service and have been accused of increasing fares on certain routes to take advantage of this arrangement the problem according to oft is that there are not enough companies competing to run services but whether in a monopoly situation or with competition private companies are still going to try to drive down wages and increase fares in sheffield some routes have seen fare cuts as a result of competing firms however a couple of weeks after one firm increased fares by 20 so did the other the oft report also accuses large firms of undercutting smaller firms to drive them away so any fare cuts are short lived once that aim is achieved the competition commission is set to investigate the unfair business practices of large bus companies but a return to public ownership is not being considered by politicians or business friendly investigative bodies amongst passengers though that solution is still very much in mind and demanded the cheap and good service run publicly in south yorkshire until 1987 is still the benchmark as far as local passengers are concerned and is fondly remembered as well as passengers the drivers and staff are angry at the current situation companies such as first and stagecoach are attempting to freeze wages at a time of record profits and shareholder dividends this has led to a series of strike ballots which are planned to culminate in nationwide action later this year if drivers and passengers can be united in one fight to restore public ownership then fares could be cut services maintained and wages increased from current low levels back to their equivalent from regulated days this task is down to campaigners and fighting union activists in the coming weeks and months posted in uncatagorised tags privatisation public ownership public transport 1 comment judges issue another attack on workers wednesday august 12 2009 charliemarks simon basketter reports the anti union laws are being extended by default and we are moving towards a situation where it will be virtually impossible to organise legal strikes at the beginning of the month the court of appeal ruled in a case that has significant consequences for every worker judges ruled in favour of metrobus which had secured a legal injunction against a planned strike by unite members in october last year the union called off the strike in response this ruling had a knock on effect on another group of workers last week unite union officials called off a planned strike by bus drivers at first in south yorkshire not because there was any challenge to their own ballot but purely on the basis of this court of appeal ruling the judgement in favour of the employer can be referred to by judges in future cases it sets a precedent that will make it more difficult for workers to take legal strike action one of the reasons the company won the injunction was because a judge found that the union had not detailed with sufficient precision the occupational grades of those taking action the same manoeuvre has recently been used against postal and tube workers the anti union laws were designed to hamper unions ability to resist and to give union leaders a way of persuading their members not to strike all these laws should go but instead of being repealed they are being interpreted ever more harshly the laws detail a thicket of obstacles that the unions have to navigate to avoid being sued during a strike one clause says that unions have to give the employers a list of workers who are going on strike and their workplaces unions must also sort workers into their occupational categories such requirements are ideal for employers who want to use technicalities to halt strikes the metrobus appeal case shows how these laws work the union argued unite takes the view that the grounds on which the judge decided to grant the injunction constitute a serious impediment on its ability and that of any other trade union to call a strike in response lord justice maurice kay wrote the right to strike has never been much more than a slogan or legal metaphor there were two main elements to the court s decision firstly although the strike ballot had closed at noon on 1 september unite informed metrobus bosses of the outcome almost 48 hours later in part this was due to a mix up between unite and electoral reform services involving a missing fax but the court ruled that the time taken to inform the employer was too long the judgement reads sec 231 imposes on the union a free standing obligation to notify the employer of the outcome of the ballot as soon as reasonably practicable that obligation must be fulfilled regardless of whether strike action is or is not voted for and importantly notice of strike action can only ever come after notice of the ballot result to the employer secondly the court ruled that the union did not properly explain how it arrived at its membership figures for how many bus drivers would be called out from which depots the three court of appeal judges disagreed about how the legislation applied but they still ruled that insufficient explanation was given the judgement read information about the numbers of employees balloted what categories they fall into in terms of what job they do where they work etc for union members who may or may not pay their union dues by deduction from salary whereby the employer can know they are union members is provided to the employer and such information must also include full explanations of how such figures are reached the figures must also be accurate in effect legal ballots become almost impossible to organise working out all the grades of construction workers or local government workers for instance would be completely unfeasible the only point on which the majority in the court disagreed with the original injunction was over the importance of a typing error 766 instead of 776 it ruled that this was trivial furthermore the court also ruled that the anti union laws are compatible with the article 11 of the european convention on human rights on the right to join a trade union when labour was elected in 1997 it had a policy of repealing the anti union laws but 12 years later it is sitting on its hands while the laws are applied ever more stringently against workers the anti union laws fly in the face of the democratic decisions of thousands of workers unless the laws are challenged no union could survive the level of detailed scrutiny now imposed on ballots but a recent spate of unofficial walkouts and occupations has shown that anti union laws are powerless if workers defy them the only way to win is for unions to refuse to back down in the face of injunctions and threats and strike regardless the right to withdraw labour by striking is the most fundamental power that workers have we must fight urgently to defend that right posted in uncatagorised tags civil liberties criminology unions workers rights 3 comments tory councils cut services as demand surges wednesday august 12 2009 charliemarks more and more working people are having to use more and more public services as the capitalist economy crumbles unemployment is in the millions underemployment too unlike the bankers and big businessmen we can t afford to hire financial advisers and accountants to help us deal with our problems and if we lose the roof over our heads we re out on the street or a friend s sofa we can t swan off to our second third or fourth home we need advice on housing and benefits provided by local councils unlike the bankers and big businessmen we don t have yachts or our own island to retreat to when we want to relax we might take a walk in the park lend some books from the library or visit the leisure centre to use the gym or have a swim in the pool all provided by local councils across england tory councils are preparing to slash spending just when working people need help the most instead of boosting employment tory councils are ready to add to the dole queues but this won t mean cuts in taxes in fact they ll have to go up to help bailout bankers rather than expell these wreckers for the chaos they are planning the tory leadership in parliament is watching these councils and using their examples to draw up spending cuts top implement if they form the next government yesterday the shadow chancellor george osbourne claimed the tories were a progressive party lord mandelson responded by claiming this was laughable truly this was two bald men fighting over a comb posted in uncatagorised tags credit crunch job cuts local government poverty recession tories underemployment unemployment 1 comment older posts create a free website or blog at wordpress com august 2026 m t w t f s s 1 2 3 4 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