Travel chaos for Cheshire’s residents as Unite strikes hits family holidays : Graham Evans, Conservative MP for Weaver Vale
Graham Evans, Conservative MP for Weaver Vale

Travel chaos for Cheshire’s residents as Unite strikes hits family holidays

Tory Candidate slams industrial action and calls on Labour to stand up for travellers

Graham Evans conservative parliamentary candidate this week expressed his disappointment at the strike action by  the Unite trade union, which will disrupt family holidays in the run up to Easter. The trade union is holding a total of seven days of strikes to disrupt British Airway’s flights.

Graham Evans is also calling on Mike Hallto condemn the strike action, encourage British Airways staff to stand up to the strikers and cross the picket line, and for the Labour Party to stop taking money from Unite during the period of industrial unrest.

In the three years since Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, Unite has spent more than £11 million of its members’ money on boosting influence within the Labour Party. This extends from placing a key union operative inside 10 Downing Street to installing Unite activists and officials as Parliamentary candidates.

Graham  said: “Labour’s union paymasters at Unite are determined to inflict travel misery on families across Cheshire. It is very disappointing that they are going ahead with this unnecessary strike.

“Gordon Brown should do all he can to urge Unite – who are funding his General Election campaign – to call off the strike.  Or he should stop taking their money. I call upon Mike Hall to condemn this strike as well.

“Cheshire and the whole country now faces travel disruption due to Labour’s new militant tendency, worsened by union barons who want to bring our railways to a standstill as well. Strike action could leave the country facing a serious transport meltdown.”

March 2010