Stephen wrote:
"and wp members have happily worked with the people who tried to have them baned."

Actually, no we haven't. We have no working relationship at all with the particular person who declared that we were banned from Unite.

That individual's attempt to impose a ban failed and Matt McCarten actually apologised over the incident, even though Matt had no hand in it.

Indeed, Matt was rather more outraged by the attempted ban than I recall you were at the time Steve. Perhaps that's why we work better with him than we do with you.

In any case, the election of a revolutionary to the presidency of the bus drivers union in Wellington should be cause for celebration not petty sectarian sour grapes.

Also, since this position is not a paid official position, but one where you continue as a bus driver, the kind of contradiction you raise isn't the porblem you suggest. Nick is still a rank-and-file bus driver.

Anyway, I look forward to reading posts about your own involvements in rank-and-file industrial disputes. What are you up to in the class struggle these days?

Phil