The most important event Women's Conference in amendment advocating rights, by breaking the law if necessary.
of proceedings, women or young people, and was out of order.
After a verv well altended evening fringe meeting organised jointly by the NUJ, SOGAT and NGA, all of which have this year engaged in "illegal' disputes, at last week's TUC Torquay wasn't on the agenda. The Women's Advisory Committee had ruled out of order an NGA motion and NUJ/NGA defence of trade The NGA and NUJ used guerilla conference tacties to challenge the ruling first thing on the first day with the clear approval of many SOGAT delegate returned, to the attack next morning, speaking to the nonexistent amendment. unanimously passed an emergency motion on the GCHQ union membership ban, and sent a message of support to those fighting Women saW emergency motion on peace passed by acclamation.
Conference rejected an NGA Monon the TUC withdraw support Training Schemes, which the proposer argued did noiningproper training, undercut established rates of pay and were intended solely massage unemployment statistics. The NUJ'S motion on unemployment which called for a special category of TUC membership for the jobless was lost The only motions that were defeated concerned the structure and status oi the conference. One called rotating the chair Marie Patterson has been chairing conference for 12 years now. After a heater this was lost by seven votes.
The call for three motions conference to go on the TUC Congress agenda fell (again), as did
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delegates. The chair, Marie Patterson, repeated her ruling that the matter wasn't specifically to do with