THE verdict the THE MAIN thrust of WAC's campaign at women's conference this month will be centred around the shadow elections to the women's section of the NEC and the need to follow through these elections with action at annual conference. resolutions on the women's organisation section part of the conference agenda reflect this priority.
WAC National Organiser The resolution NUPE is another matter.
It amasses together a wide range of issues of concern to the women's organisation, proposes course of action deal with Then which WAC NUPE was trying to be certainly not the way to do The major problem with the resolution is its call for 'the NEC to undertake widespread CUlI The majority of the sultation exercise in conjunction with the national LaDOUl (NLWC) • The of issues. organisation does not need a consulta. tion exercise we have nau. onc. it's called the women's conference. Year after organisation has made its y cal the known, NLWC supported these policies sending document to the NEC for men in the barry are that The party are no now to consult men in the Party who Have consisichl ly voted us down at annual because they are not prepared to give up some of their power? And when the results of this consultative exercise come through and the women's organisation gets offered a few crumbs the men's table (if that), the NLWC will be in the invidious position of having been a party to the con sultation exercise therefore obliged to take notice of it. The women's organisation cannot compromise itself in this way.
Such an exercise would also mean that campaigning al annua. Conterence sımply told support could not be given to our resolutions because of the consultation exercise and it wouldn't even. be certain that an end to the exercise would be made in 1987 for action at the '87 annual We cannot allow Call paigning to be stiffled in this way.
The detail of the NUPE resolution is also of great conceal talks about consultation on giving 'consideration to the national of Labour women playing a significant role in the election procedure for women's • seats on the NEC Sorry, we want to do it all.
The resolution says it wants to see consultation on the 'elections to the na.
…Laboul committee with a view to allowing an additional say by the national conference of Labour women in the composition of the committee. con ference policy is clear. We want to see the whole committee elected at women's not Nave al 'additional say' It also lists a whole Tance complex issues proposing clear options which woul make a consultation exerdifficult, consuming cumbersome to say the least WAC has asked NUPE to look again at its resolution and to withdraw it. If they are not prepared to do this will remit it tophe NLWe. then hopefuly But if it goes to the vote at we will have to oppose it.
With friends like this, who needs enemies?