cats" profiting from PFI and PPP deals have been targeted by the GMB (who staged this photo opportunity) and other unions.
-rades Union Congress - a week of mind-numbing boredom, stage-managed resolutions keeping sweet with the government, pro- will Bush moting partnership with the bosses. But this year want to someone tampered with
On a whole range of issues the TUC General Council found
Iraq whether inspectors are admitted or not." Mark Serwotka for PCS asked, "Which regime will Bush want to change next?" Reminding delegates that, "it was the US which used chemical weapons Vietnam weapons in lapan," Bob Crow called on everyone to join the 28 September demonstration, of breaching international Jeremy Dear of the NUJ obligations. Industry Minister pointed out that he had Alan Johnson immediately been "standing with those responded by ruling out any opposing Saddam Hussein
when governments in the
With the war debate West were supplying him brought forward to Monday with arms." afternoon to protect Tony Billy Hayes of the CWU Blair, the General Council summed up the argument, had come up with an "anti- "Let a clarion call come from war" statement that was this conference: No war on critical of US policy and asserted its opposition to
military action. Only with the explicit authority of the UN Security
profit weapons Only one speaker backed
war - Roger Lyons of Amicus, who claimed the anti-war amendment from the TSSA "could have come from Baghdad Council." Realising they hac lost the debate TUC leader John Monks tried to argue, and nuclear "there are no warmongers
There." But still on a show of hands the TSA amendment
while appeared to be passed.
Only by holding a card vote could the major black votes of the TGWU, GMB and Amicus be used to defeat the rest of the conference -by 3.4 million to 2.4 million. What was clear was that those unions opposing war were going to go back from the congress to redouble their efforts to mobilise for the 28 September demo On the euro, the TUC leadership was on the defensive. In previous years it has Beatty §125 m profit Pension The pensions crisis was Trades
put in the spodight "The move by companies to close fina salary schemes represents the most serious real cuts in pay and conditions since the Second World War," was how TUC deputy general secretary Brendan Barber put it While a number of unions are gearing up for strikes to defend members pension rights, another solution was put forward -property funded decent state pensions for all. .•.