ACt Now for TaGWU Conference
Socialist Press1976 1976-12-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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T&GWU branches are being asked over the next few weeks to submit resolutions to next policy making body of the union.
It was the previous T&GWU Conference - in July 1975 - which was used by Jones and the Wilson-Healey leadership of the Labour government to introduce the £6 pay limit.
ACCEPTED
At that Conference the social contract was accepted on the basis of a number of stringent conditions including a reduction in unemployment, a price freeze and a massive increase in public spending.
But the subsequent action of the T&GWU General Executive Council in support of the present 5% pay policy under conditions where none of those conditions have been fulfilled is clearly contrary policy of the union.
Branches wishing to raise these issues and who wish to propose a policy to defend the living standards of the working class must submit their resolutions now.
Callaghan has announced in the Queen's speech that he wants a further year of wage controls after July 31st, when the 5% policy ends. The T&GWU Conference will draw to a close only two weeks before that date.
The timing is again perfect; the likelihood is that Jones will once again try to use the conference to put the seal on a further blistering attack on the working class.
For this reason, and as part of today's fight against the reactionary wage controls imposed upon T&GWU members by its leadership, a full-scale fight against any future controls and for policies to maintain the value of the wage packet must be launched in the union. injunctions and decrees.
CRUNWICK
EDEMAND LA NTE whom are paid scandalously low wages. ADEL
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