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Transport and General Workers Union docks year job in Saudi Arabia.

Madden has resigned as Divisional Officer for Tilbury Docks and gone to work as a labour supervisor for a firm which sacked almost 300 members of his union in 1975.

Racialist

And he is going to work in a country which operates a racialist cast system of employment, where whites are used as a priviliged layer of workers to help ensure the continued super exploitation of Arab workers.

This will come as no novelty to Madden (whose new job is revealed by docker Bob Light in Socialist Worker).

For two years Madden has been using his union office and union time to recruit dockers for Saudi Arabia, while at the same time he sat on the London Dock Labour Board.

This body is responsible for discipline at the docks and would play a decisive role in deciding whether dockers who had left to work in the Middle East would get their jobs back if they wanted to return home.

Madden, in becoming the Don Revie of the TGWU, will no doubt find familiar faces among his employers. The largest shareholder in the firm of consultants for which he will work is ScruttonsMaltby, a firm which is supposed to have gone bankrupt in 1975, throwing 300 white collar workers London onto the dole.

Madden himself was one of the negotiators for the union.

Madden's class role is little different from the rest of the unelected, boss loving TGWU bureaucrats whose fat salaries and 'company' cars are paid for by the union membership they betray.

As labour supervisor for a rotten regime in the Middle East he will presumably carry on his job much as at Tilbury.

Through their low wages Arab dockers will now indirectly pick up the bill for this parasite.

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