Scottish youth march for jobs virtually the whole of ship building in Scotland Conference pledges to fight butchery were given flesh and blood with the presence of occuying workers the Timex factory in Dundee who received an emotional Tributes came too for the women of Greenham Common as the conference stressed its com unilateral nuclear disarmamen backing for work place CND groups.
The significant debate of conference was around pay restraint. A resolution was passed declaring any incomes policy, imposed informal, or their aim wage regulations free collective bargaining re-affirms its support for free collective bargaining, opposes all forms of restraint and supports the decision of the 1982 TUC which opposes any discussions on wage restraint' But along with this the TUC backed Partners in nebulaing with the national economic assessment. he movers of the resolution, the Miners and Civil Service unions, had originally spelt out a rejection of the wage restraint contained in the new economic assessment.
When unions like the stressed 'We seek amon opposition to wagt however achieved and that includes a national economic assesSullell.
But the fact remains that water tight com mitments were dropped against a pay deal through the partnership of officials Labour government.
fudging on Socia contract weakens the labour move the face ot arguments put up by Michael Foot at thè conterence.
motivated that workers may have to make bea an e capitalism's crises the boss class or the working 'A Labour government has a choice Either to challenge the wealth DUWCI OI the multinationals, monopolies banks with the support of the trade movement, mobilised through free collective bargaining to fight for better wages and conditions. Or to bow pressures of the enemies of labour'.
Despite these firm the back room deals at the Scottish TUC show that the ranks of the labour movement need to remain vigilant if the Scottish challenge to wage restraint is to mean anything.