Gary Smith of the GMB, a regular here, siding with Labour, the private care home owners and others in the private sector who privately despise him and his members, blaming the SNP/Green government for delayed bin collections in Glasgow.
He’s the GMB UK leader now so why hasn’t he gone to Labour-run Wales to see how they deal with refuse?
See this:
A long-running strike affecting waste collection in Cardiff is to be extended by another month in the latest bout of disruption. Unite union members have been on strike since December 28 with the industrial action due to end on January 25. However the union has now announced this will now continue until Thursday, February 22.
They say that the fresh strike dates are in response to “Cardiff council’s failure to make any progress in relation to Unite’s concerns on a number of local issues”. According to Unite the most prominent of these is “the widespread bullying culture within the refuse and recycling department alongside the ingrained use of agency labour”.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/cardiff-bin-strikes-extended-again-28438088
Here’s some of Gary’s previous anti-SNP refuse:
In 2004, the Glasgow University Media Group revealed the power of media to distort, even reverse reality, in a study, Bad News from Israel, of TV coverage of Israel/Palestine. Most striking was the fact that after watching BBC TV broadcasts covering Palestinian protests against Israel, only 8% of 300 young people sampled, thought that the Palestinians were the original inhabitants of the land, that they had been expelled from their homes in a civil war and that most of the Israeli population were migrants who had arrived from Europe, in the second half of the 20th Century. 92% thought that the Palestinians were recent immigrants. The coverage had effectively reversed reality. It’s one of the sharpest examples of media power.
More directly relevant for us today, the group had earlier exposed TV news bias against and neglect of, the views of trade unions, in the reporting of industrial disputes, in the 1970s, always implying worker agitation with a political agenda had triggered the dispute and rarely if ever questioning the intentions of owners or the competence of management.
Influenced by them and, of course, Noam Chomsky, I found similar biases persisting into the 21st Century. In a 2008 study of how the UK media covered economic issues, around the budget, I found an unquestioning acceptance of a free-market ideology and an almost complete neglect of the viewpoints of workers’ groups.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0163443710361659
Fast forward only 10 to 12 years and into the years just before and after Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum and the relationship between Scotland’s MSM and the trade unions is transformed. From the RMT to the BMA, these groups feed headline news, are not criticised, and the dispute which only a decade or so before might have been blamed on them is now used to question the competence of the SNP Government.
One union, however, stands out above the others in the frequency of its appearances and in the strength of its accusations – the GMB.
The GMB supports fracking, nuclear power and Trident. It is affiliated to the Labour Party, supported the leadership candidacy of the millionaire Anas Sarwar over the leftist and referendum-friendly Monica Lennon and its Scotland Organiser is the wife of former Scottish Labour leader, Richard Leonard.
Today, the GMB has restarted a refuse worker strike in Glasgow, which it cancelled last Friday, as COP26 began, without consulting its members and after appearances by Sarwar with bin collection teams.
In April 2021, the GMB, told its health service workers to reject a pay settlement after misleading them on the details of it.
In January 2021, it made a fuss about the colour of vaccine letter envelopes.
In August 2020, it fed BBC Scotland a lie about the closure of the clearly unsafe Hunterston B nuclear power station suggesting that to do so would make Scotland more dependent on fossil fuels.
In June 2020, Karen Leonard used a dodgy survey to suggest anxiety about the return to schools of cleaners and janitors and in April 2020, their leader Gary Smith sided with the private care home owners against the SNP Government, over PPE supplies.
I could go on.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Labour supporting illegal wars, Trident, HS2, Hickley Point etc. Funded by the Trade Union. Killing people. The Westminster Government spending £50Billion of Scottish monies. Half. On Westminster poor, bad decisions. Giving Scotland the accured debt of the Westminster Gov wasting monies. Like there is no tomorrow. Endless projects of no market and no value. Brexit a catastrophic decision. Losing £Billions.
Scottish revenues and resources being totally wasted by Westminster poor, bad and totally appalling decisions. Then giving Scotland the debt to pay back the Westminster Gov has accured. Totally illegal and dishonest. Trying to keep it hidden under the Official Secrets Act. Masonic. Decisions not made in Scotland. No taxation without representation. The Union costs Scotland £Billions that could be better spent.
Nuclear decommissioning £13Billion a year being spent over 10 years. Going up and increasing endlessly.
UK pension £8,000 a year. 1/4 of the average income. Pensioners have to get top up benefits. More expensive administration. Nearly as much as the benefits. Some people vote to kill their mothers who gave birth to them. Women live longer than men and did not get pension right because they worked P/T.
UK Gov redundant weaponry, ending on the black market. The world being blown to bits. Costs £Trillions but not enough for the NHS.
The list is endless.
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Labour and the GMB should combine to form a new force in politics.
I’ve got a name ready for them:
Insidious
Whatever happened to helping the workers?
Grievous Manipulating Barstewards.
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Gary Smith is just polishing up his CV for his application to be a shoo-in for a safe Labour sear – somewhere ! Probably not Wales !
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