Trade unions and the Black Section campaign | Socialist Action 1983

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areas. These include the Transport and Union of Public Employees, has already begun to bear fruit.

One of the four unions support Labour Party conference, to submit an amendment OIC VUI SIA resolutions.

The ACTT latched on to the paragraph Tne Newham North West resolution which showed how we have turned our atall organised voice for black workers in trade unions as well as the Labour Party.

The other unions which support us are the NUM. NÜR and NUPE. BLACK SECTION conference urged the national committee to launch a concerted campaign in the trade union movement and that is what has been done. We reorganised our trade union work so that we now have trade union coordinators for all the key General Workers Union, General and Municipal, National Association of Scientific and Technical Staff, TASS, National Union of Railwaymen and the communications unions. This Former NUR chair, Ernie Taylor, made a spirited speech in favour of Black Sections at the union's annual meeting. Ernie is a long-standing. member of Mossley Hill CLP in Liverpool was the only black person on the city's district party executive unWas disbanded by witch-hunters national headquarters.

The health COHSE has done it again.

It is well-known for drawing subscriptions from a large percentage of black who do not get representation on decision-making bodies. And its reputation as maverick umon Is unacl lined by its opposition to but This year, though, COHSE passed a resolu (OLference supporting 'posiuve discrimination for women in the union. What delegates had in mind was 'automatic places' on COHSE's ecutive council. But it IS still 'no' to Black Sections and no mention of black This information the Black Section campaign taken from the latest issue of Black Section Newsletter. Get Black Section speakers invited to union branches and union broad left Contact the Black Section Trade Union Convenor, c/o 122a Ferndale Road, Brixton, London SW4 7SA.

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Socialist Action 29 Aug 1986