POEU left wins victory for labour movement | Socialist Action 1983

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DANGER CONCENTRATES the mind.

of a Tory landslide concentrated leadership of the union.

The Broad Left won of conference the support against the NEC on all the key issues. The outgoing executive's proposals for amalgamation with the SPOE supervison was turned down in favour of the Broad Left's proposal for amalgamation with the UCW.

The executive wanted to create civil-service type union which would include management The Broad Left fought for a rank and file union of workers in the comme adoption of the The adoption Broad Left's approach is a real break with the union's co-responsibility approach to manageMet. deskilling, Faced with Job loss, privatisation the old relationship with BT management has broken down.

And for minds on the Dave Ward as new Broad Left member of the national executive BT is a rapidly expan no are one con growing with the development of new technology in cable TV and business information communication. It will be one of the highly profitable areas of the British convully against privatisation. the wings of this arch right-winger who with Healey Callaghan responsible for disarray in the election. Zone This puts the POEU in the centre of the left right battle in the labour moveThe new executive will be in an excellent posiThe company's polic Post Office engineers demonstrate outside the Bank of England as part of their action come of that battle.

This will put enormous pressure on the left. The pronly of the right the lett the same time they will be fighting to divide the new executive the membership.

Dealing with all these pressures will require enormous flexibility alongside the most determined opposition to the pany seeking a meeting to Tory plans for privatisation.

The Broad Left won the conference because it effectively combined against Custod with the Dollical leader against hat the leadership. combination will continue to necessary. And i provides an object lesson for the left in other unions on how to organise. volunteers - not through

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delegates at Post Office Engineering Union con- ference, held just before the election, the certainty