discontent aimed at the government's austerity drive laura smith spoke to british trade union leader bob crow the full interview is coming up later today but here's a quick preview. with a site that is about sewing that workers save enough for enough when people pay the tax. not be able to afford to go to university their kids not be able to get social housing or the social benefits being eroded child benefit being stuck. that is good to do something about it. if you don't fight then you're to put up with a posse sign if you do want to fight you've got a chance of winning. we'll be back with more international news in thirty minutes coming up in a few moments our special report iraq. issues that so much of the huge musician. market revolutionary dictator in the making president mohammed morsi is presidential decree spreading in wide powers has reopened the debate about. live . live . live. live live. live. live live live . more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.

today i'm talking to bob crow he's one of the u.k.'s most notorious union leaders he heads up the are empty the underground dreyfus union but across science we're talking to us now just in the past couple of weeks your members have gone on two separate strikes train clean as an underground maintenance workers you've gained this reputation as the most strike happy union why are you so quick to take action like this when we're not quick to actually cite the action i mean we have to have a power of our members a secret ballot the ballots conducted in the members are now and they can vote yes or no we always put a recommendation which what it should be recommended. action we give the employer seven days notice before we start the power when we get the ballot result when we think of seven days no it's a month just for the ballot in process so we never actually conduct negotiations for a sign of a ballot to strike action. climbing we try to get what we can without going on strike eighty percent of our members we achieve what we want without

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votes, i suppose you have received the jim crow prize for second place finish in the presidential campaign. it's crazy. >> only thing i would say to my friend bobs i think stuart is being loyal the way people are when they've lost hard-fought campaigns. you have bon on the losing side -- >> i don't remember bob shrum not telling the truth in the light of a spanking. >> no, bob is not a fantasist. joopt to suggest that all republicans lack moral and intellectual resources to confront what happened. mike murphy said, folk, that the party needs to realize that the party's brand is dying, its strategists are incompetent and it's campaign methods are hopelessly outmoded. that's right, isn't it? >> it's largely right. again, if you want to dissect the infighting among republican strategists, there's probably a lot of blame to go in why the republicans have not evolved their position in a way that would be more relevant to the everyday problems of average americans, which is to my mind why the party is going to be in big trouble. i think, look, wherever the dust clears on this, if the republicans don't get a rethinking like clinton provided for the de