was on unity at the 90th Scottish Trades Union Congress at Perth on 21-24 April.
Nevertheless, as early as the Tuesday morning, the STUC did break ranks with the TUC over the Job Training Scheme.
The JTS, one of Lord Young's latest wheezes disguise the true unemployment tigures. involves 18-24 year-old 'trainees' working for firms in return for an allowance inal must exceed their previous dole money or DHSS benetit!
A motion calling for a policy of non-cooperation with the JTS was carried overwhelmingly. So the STUC joins the Party in Scotland in blanket opposition to the JIS.
Already Scotland's two largest TOCO autontes. Strathclyde Lothian cavia councis, flavo 10 jected the thousands of JTS placements offered to them by the Manpower Services The STUC restated its traditional opposition to incomes policy motion from TÁSS (Tobacco Workers) which said in part: Congress determines to reject any form of wage restraint it sees a high HELD AS it was in a pre-election period, the accent wage economy as being fundamental to recovery.
Last year's Glasgow Trades Council (personal capacity)
just a few days before Chernobyl, had rejected narrowall anu auccal CUiltposite on energy from the mineworkers' union, so this year's energy debate was eagerly awaited. But behind-the-scenes horse-trading stagemanagement aimed at stifl ing controversy spoiled the A composite from the among others, the ABU, NUM. backed was carried. But this merely cave•or a moralonun ol new nuclear power plants anu uc Dilasie out ol tic 'Magnox' type.
Some delegates expressed disappointment that the NUM did not sustain their previous publicly-held view that the Torness nuclear power station near Dunbar decommissioned converted to coal-firing.
Whatever assurances the EETPU leadership had give behind the scenes on in the event they still moved their blatantly pro-nuclear culousile which was heavily defeatec kank ana me sentiment re-asserted itself in the sucwhen, against the general council's the only card vote of the delegates voted to oppose the Euronuclear waste reprocessing plant at Dounreay.
In debates on Thursday morning on a ministry for women and on ine Scotthish assembly, endorsed the concept of the ministry for engine for positive action in both a UK welchas and a Scottish context.
lenatold featured highly. A composite from APEX on Northern Ireland called for an end plastic bullets, Diplock strip-searching, supergrass trials, and the Prevention of Terrorism Act. However, part of a constituent motion trom Haikirk rades Council which called for ultimately a united Ireland, was omitted the composin fringe meeting on Ireland was jointly organised by the Labour Committee on Ireland and the Campaign Democratic Rights in Northern Ireland Tom Redmond, Trade Unionists for Irish Unity and Noel Harris of ACTT weicullicu the • increased discussion of Ireland by the British labour movement, and for such discussion to out the composite Irish self-determination, ie British withdrawal.
On apartheid, and on the day Rate une massacre of striking black railway workers the South African police, NUR general secretary Jimmy with his call to step up th boycott and for an end to British complicity with Pretoria.
There were also debates on Poland, on Central and Latin America, and fringe Chile Namibia
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