Well Pierce Morgan is full of bile and some of what he does
is hate speech to be honest with you.
Trade unionists come out every day trade union leaders and activists
come out and face the cameras and the media and give a full account
of what they do and have to face a lot of hostility.
We do that because we want to spread the truth and because
we have a lower chance than people like him
who are self-propelling windbags as far as I'm concerned.
Well Piers Morgan is in a very elite position he's in the pay of oligarchs
and he has been for a very long time the super rich.
If he had to do what my members do getting up at all hours of the morning
and all those public servants out there and private sector workers as well,
working shifts in arduous working situations in all kinds of weathers
putting up with all sorts of conditions they wouldn't last a minute.
Given the regime our people have and given the pay levels that
they've got they wouldn't survive on what our people have to put up with
and they wouldn't have a future in the real world where they've
never done a 'hands turn' as my mother used to say.
I don't think trade unions are represented fairly in the media.
There's a standing position that you get from what's called the right wing press
that's a cliche but I think it's accurate.
So if you take The Telegraph, The Mail The Express and of course The Sun
and The Star and whatever else is out there at the minute.
There's very little Freedom or ability for trade unions to express themselves.
And you get all this stuff about 'Union Barons'
and 'Union Militants' and all the rest of it
and that is in some ways repeated in the mainstream media
such as the television and the radio.
The BBC is under a lot of pressure from right-wingers in the Tories
about being a left-wing liberal institution and so they tread a line that I think
regurgitates government and employer press releases.
And it's very difficult for trade unions to get their point across.
But we must be breaking through in some way and the new media
outlets on social media does give us an opportunity
and more and more people don't trust the mainstream for various reasons
and that means that we can get our voice out.
And some people have said that I've done a decent job
and other trade unions have done a decent job of trying to break through,
but it is an uphill struggle because it seems that
everything is pitched against us,
and there's no neutrality in the media so we've got to keep trying hard.
But the main thing is we've got to convince our people
trade unionists to take the action and then I think that spreads
to other people in the communities whether it's in your Pub,
in your mosque or in your church or Temple,
people have those discussions about what's going on.
Every worker knows that they're underpaid and the only means
to address that is through organised labour.
So we'll keep going and get the message out there
through whatever means we can.
There are fake stories all over the place and BBC has fallen
for one of those and had to delete it and I'm glad they have.
But if you go on social media I think they're called Bots,
people claiming to be train drivers and people claiming to be RMT members
and others and nurses that are not doing any work.
I can tell you that every worker out there
is working as hard as they have ever done.
And it's not the fault of the nurses and the medical staff
and the support staff in the hospitals that the hospitals are in crisis
that is a direct result of underfunding.
It's not the fault of the Railway workers that the railways
don't work when we're not on strike.
And when the railway is collapsing around us it's our members that
have to face the anger rightful anger in some ways and frustration
of the traveling public that they can't rely on a train service.
And that's true of services all over our country so there's a fake narrative
there's a lot of false news and it's deliberate it's orchestrated
by certain people right-wing groups and others that are pushing these lines
that strikers are lazy that workers are lazy I'm not going to accept that.
and I know that most of the people should be cynical
about what they're being fed.
Talk to your local public servant talk to your Railway workers,
but even our police officers and all the rest of them everybody
is facing it at the moment and everybody's rightly cynical about
what they're being told and fed in the mainstream media and elsewhere.
So let's try and cut through and get to the truth
It's difficult for working-class people to get their voices heard
to get Trade union leaders heard to get the expressions of solidarity
that we want to hear.
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