TRADE UNION CND holds its annual general tant role to play in 1984.
about the campaigning priorities for the coming year.
Twenty-eight national unions affiliated to between 450-470 regional alu lucal bodies. registered workplace groups and affiliates vote at our annual meeting to elect officers and executive which meets monthly.
Unions' work varies.
For instance, NUPE's peace pack is probably the best campaigning material around. But many don't go beyond payıng their yearly affiliation the way TUC and Labour Party important Culiculo. though that is.
We've already cirfor 1984 trade union conterences, ana we re noping to organise fringe meetings at all of them.
We don't have a very effective ICwork. Only a few regions Have aLVe TUCND group. Building them one of our priorities We're also hoping to get a network of peaceships going - an idea pinched from the Australian seamens suggesting the miners' UHOI consider peace-pits. These are more workplace groups, similar to declaring a nuclear-free Zo We have some specific targets. Some our unions have members in the armaments. industry.
We hope the Bradford we're helping STUDENTS MOBILISE AGAINST Students at South Bank Poly are taking issue with CND National Council for their tardiness in organising demonstration when the American president visits Britain for the World Economic Summit in early June. They are calling on CND, London Region CND and London Student with the labour movement to do it. The occaTion of keagan's visist is bound to see proests against Euro-missiles and US policy in Central America. It looks as if students will be leading the way. meeting on Saturday 25 February. Since the arrival of cruise, more and more people have been joining CND. As a specialist section, TUCND has an imporANDREW HEWETT, TUCND's full-time worker, told Socialist Action organise on sponsored by some major unions will involve peothe industry discussing alternative, socially useful production.
And there are unions directly affected LIC new civil defence regulaCONS CalC force on 1 December last year. After our Hard Luck exercise against the government's Operation Hard Rock - we can have allollici success on inis front in 1984. Success A national tocus currently being discussed, is a week of action along the same lines as the German peace movement's last year. One day the churches do something, another day women, another people in education and so on. The trade union day could be organising workplace For a five-minute meets. protest stoppage.
Imagination's the only limit. lot of members want to work in the unions, but have little idea about union structures.
The unions are in a fragile state at the mo ment. Defending members' living standards is the first and immediate priority. We have to find ways to integrate their main concerns with main concerns.
Making the tions between spending an anti-Reagan cuts and increased military expenditure is a good way for CND groups to build links. the government s legislation is another.
CND is aware that this legislation attacks our right to organise and proTHE View from
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CND to get together and organise a massive reception for Saturday 3 June, and to link up