Mr Bob Crow RIP

[Frederick Lacey]

He won't be missed by the passengers on the Tube.

[Jim Brady]

I did'nt hear the full broadcast but he was being interviewed on Radio 5 Live only yesterday and he was defending his £145.000 p.a. salary.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Louis the fly]

I am not expecting many fellow members to agree with me.
Bob Crow was the last, true union leader. He fought for his beliefs and his ambition to make a fairer society despite the abuse from politicians and right wing press.
I can think of many more who abandoned their principles and the workers they were paid to represent to take up a seat in the Lords.

[Captain Kong]

All deaths are very sad affairs. a life is so precious.
But I cannot say he was one of my favourite men.
He `lived `in a Council House, now was that just to make the members think he was one of them? or as many politicians and Union Bosses have a double life and he lived in a Union House most of the time, If he lived in a Council House on his salary of £145,000 plus expences, was he not denying a poorly paid family a house????
He was also getting involved with Springbok.
The retirement home and convelescent home for Seafarers given to us by the South Africa Government as a thank you for the war time efforts of British Seafarers in WW2.
a friend who is involved with the committee of Springbok said Crow had been there many times and tried to fill it up with Railway men to the exclusion of Retired Seafarers.
So was he really Mr Nice Guy?? your descision.
Cheers
Brian.

[robpage]

As long as a Union man is representing the men who put him there he is doing his job , I always believed that the Union man on tje ground , the local area official should be getting the average of what the men get , and the Hierarchy no more than 2 x that , What I have read of the attempts on Springbok have been irritating , but some day in te future there won't be enough British seafarers to fill it , what happens then ?

[cappy]

same as has happened in the british legion rob .....as my ma in laws husband was army she gets in but there are some there who are not ex forces who are taken in to keep the places paying for themselves

[Captain Kong]

The problem with Union Bosses is when they call a strike, usually because they have failed to negotiate properly with the management, the Members on strike recieve No Pay. the Union Boss continues with his salary and expenses and loses nothing.
Brian.

[Red Lead Ted]

Louis, I for one agree with you, He is going to be very hard if not impossible to replace for the R.M.T. Workers. He was not an Arthur Scargill character he was a very clever negotiator and always had the good sense and foresight to pull out with the best deal for his workers. That's what he was paid for and that's what he done. London tube drivers are on a £52,000 a year wage. I always remember him on Question Time not that long ago, A pompous historian told him he was disrupting the ordinary working man by calling lightning strikes on the London underground yet he never lost any of his £145,000 a year wage his reply !!!!!!!!!! Your quite correct its at times like this I earn what I am paid to do look after my members best interest. If there was a few more like him in the trade union movement today there would be no zero hour contracts for our youngsters for one thing. Because love him or hate him he stood for what he believed in and worked endlessly for his union's members best interests one of the last remaining flat cap British working mans union leader and a great speaker and character the day before he died he actually called for M,P,s to be given a pay rise and cut out claiming expenses he also lived in a council house a true man of the people. May he R.I.P. Sadly missed Terry.

[Brenda Shackleton]

Only in Great Britain can an avowed Communist speak his mind in total freedom - and call a strike.

My Dad told me that in Archangel in 1942 some dockers refused to unload some hides from a ship's hold ( they were very smelly ) They were lined up on the Dockside and I leave you to imagine what happened to them. The rest returned to work...... strike in a Communist Country? I don't think so.

Regards
Brenda

[Red Lead Ted]

Brenda, Only in Great Britain would you get Police/ Fire/Ambulance/ And N.H.S. in general would you get those services wanting to ballot their members on industrial action { UNTHINKABLE } Afraid not. Terry.