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1) According to the link, the meeting of some Labour MPs Coyne spoke was not concerned with the EU fight OR an occasion on which Coyne was there to fight for the needs of working people: It was a meeting of an organization, "Labour for the Common Good", that has been seen by many on the center-left and left as a potential second-SDP-in-the-making. Would you really expect any real union leader to think a new "radical centre" splinter party could possibly fight for working people or the poor or to want to see his deputy giving aid and comfort to such a group?

2) Coyne is challenging McCluskey from sharply to his right, on a "labour management cooperation", or unconditional surrender to the bosses platform. Given that labour-management cooperation pretty much always leads to union negotiators agreeing to every concession management ever demands, how is such a concept ever a way to fight for higher wages ad better conditions for the workers that union represents?

Are you sure McCluskey isn't just trying to defend his membership here?