84 Political representation of members
Submitted by Communication Workers’ Union
Congress recognises the lack of adequate representation at political level for the members of affiliated unions. Congess notes that New Labour, as currently constituted, is now failing to attract the support of our members and that its vote at the 2009 European Election reached an historic low. The present Government’s policy of continuing privatisation, cuts in Government spending and failure to remove the anti-trade union laws is unlikely to change this in the near future.
Congress therefore calls on the General Council to convene, at the earliest opportunity, a conference of all affiliated unions to consider how to achieve effective political representation for our members.
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The best way will to revitalise the link between the Party and the union movement is by encouraging and supporting trade union members to join and become active in the Party and bring it back closer to its trade union roots. We are the Labour movement family and like every family we will fall out and even violently disagree from time to time, but we should all agree that the worse day in any Labour Government is much, much better than the best day in any Tory one.
We have seen a complete betrayal of our class by the Labour Party two discusting wars the gap between the have and haves not increased estarte up and down the country run down increased attacks on the poorwest and most vunerable by the and there friends in the CBI and tabliods we have seen the goverment pander to tabloid racist propaganda in short we need a workers led party to represent our union and the wider working class in goverment. As a result of the goverment and the real unwillingness of some unions to take action we have seen the BNP and other groups exploit this situation my own union called for joint action in the puclic sector and once again we saw Pretis shy away from it time to drawn a line and fight for our class step asside pretiss and any other Gen Sec who is not willing to take the fight on
Cuts, privatisations, mass unemployment wars, and greedy MPs that milk the expenses system. Is that what the trade union movement founded the Labour Party for?
Labour has now completely become a big business party, just like the Liberals a century ago.
We need a party for the millions, not the millionaires. We need to stop feeding the hand that bites us.