Class unemployment. do not tigure in the account book mentality of the the suvailuckl Coal Board. The cost of closure is far greater when new president for the whole labour movement.
As Tocher explained to ponent par.
Mainstream organization They've come out quite openly that they are consorting with the EETPU the UDM They're consorting together with a view to splitting the TUC break traditional relationship between the unions the Labour Party and move towards the SDP.
Jordan and the right wing majority on the executive council claim to be the champions of democracy. Their record and their plans for the future prove this claim to be a lie.
On several occasions executive council has overmaden the views of the anBALLOT PAPERS are now out for the election of a Amalgamated Union of The Broad Left nual national committee (the supreme policy making body of the union)
For example, the executive Would up the union's sickness and superannuaLIU1. scheme without reference back to the Most disastrously, it has invariably reached on wage rates with the engineering Culliover.
without the members having any say whatsoever.
The effect of this lack of democracy can be seen in the national minimum time rate. Only skilled week for engineer.
To gain complete control over the members, the right wing wants weaken the basic unity of the AUEW - the shop stewards branches and district com- commutices.
mittees. The frequency of branch and district Conmeetings has been halved; the authority of district committees to authorise industrial action nas been removed. Only executive council can now make strikes official. It is rumoured that the CAecutive wants to stop the quarterly meetings of shop stewards in every district of the union.
The right's plan is to weaken the bodies which are most accountable to the members, concentrate power in the hands of the executive, hold • perlodic postal ballots conducted through AUEW journal (edited by Ine Gavin Laird) and the na tional newspapers of Murdoch, Maxwell and Shah Such measures would pave way the right's long-term aim: amalgamation with the EETPU on the basis latter union's undemocratic rules and structures.
A vote for Tocher is a vote to defend the relative democracy of the AUEW constitution and rules. leonid victory for Tocher make I easier lor AUEW members to control their union and better wage the struggle against the engineering employers.
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is the forum debates over policy. The function is to enac ge it. So the dif sabotage ference in stance between Jordan and myself is that I would be endeavouring to operate the policy of national committee.
Forum That does not mean single union agreements. It doesn't mean that renege on your word that's been given to the TUC 'It means you remind the membershi of the policies of the TUC. Mos importantly, it means you support members when they're involved in strug gle with their employers.
are NUT members.
Secondly, their tactics flowing from having this strength included being prepared to boycott giving urgency fo the employers to make a ofter so as to call off the boycott.
NUT members would do well to take notice of this. Indeed members of NAS-UWT, the se. cond biggest teachers England Wales would also gain by realising that all teachers benefit from a united front of the NUT and the NAS. UWT.
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Workers (AUEW). Engineering
candidate, John Tocher's right wing opponent is Bill Jordan. A victory for Jordan would be a blow to the