UK union bosses threaten to topple govt. with Corbyn

British unionists threaten to topple the Tories’ conservative government, using the landslide victory of the new opposition Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, a report says.

The chiefs of Britain's biggest unions have threatened to “topple the government,” using “coordinated strikes and demonstrations,” according to the Telegraph.

This comes after Corbyn chose members of his shadow government on Sunday, a day after winning over 59 percent of party votes to become Labour chief.

The union’s threat also follows a Conservatives plan for a four-month time limit on ballots so that mandates for protest action are always recent. Currently, unions are able to hold strikes years after balloting members, the report added.

The Tories’ anti-strike plan has been described as Corbyn’s first test as Labour leader on Monday, when the Tories put forward their Trade Union Bill, designed to sharply slash unions power and their ability to call strikes.

At an annual conference in Brighton, union leaders lined up to call for strikes and “occupations” following Corbyn’s victory, as they vowed to oppose the new Tory legislation.

Mark Serwotka, leader of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), was quoted in the report as saying, “You have to pinch yourselves that a Labour leader is saying things that all of us agree with.”

“If we are going to see any of those policies realized, we will not get that just through what Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party do in Parliament. If Jeremy Corbyn wants to win on those policies, he absolutely needs a mass vibrant movement in the country… He needs the six-and-a-half million trade union members to ensure that we have that vibrant campaign through strikes, demonstrations, local campaigns, occupations and everything else.”

He added: “We have the ability to stop austerity in its tracks, to topple this government and to ensure we get a fairer society.”

Len McCluskey, the Unite leader, said the Tories “will never ever, ever defeat a united working class, a united trade union movement, a united Labour movement.”

Rob Williams, of the National Shop Stewards Network, said his members would “take down” UK Prime Minister David Cameron, noting: “The victory yesterday by Jeremy Corbyn has changed everything. The vote we saw yesterday was a political revolution. We must build a mass movement against austerity and the anti-union laws.”

“The message must be simple – 'Cameron: we are going to take you down. Your anti-union Bill and your cuts, you’re going down because we are mobilizing against you.” 

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