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Model motion on anti-union laws

This union branch/committee notes:

This branch/committee resolves:

The Queens Speech shows the Tories

have declared war on the trade union
movement.

To build the biggest possible turn

out of our members on the 20 June
demonstrations in London/Glasgow.

Cameron wants to further shackle our

trade unions with more anti trade union
legislation, despite Britain already having
the most draconian laws in Western
Europe.

To offer the maximum solidarity to all

workers in struggle.

If new thresholds, with a 50 percent

turnout and 40 percent of all those eligible
having to vote yes in any ballot involving
workers in essential services were applied
to general elections some 270 Tory MPs sat
in the House of Commons would remain
unelected. New laws are being proposed
by a government supported by only 24
percent of the electorate.
The Tories also intend to offer employers
what amounts to a licence to break strikes.
They want to make it legal to use agency
workers during industrial disputes to
replace strikers.
With further tightening of the right to
picket, this is a package aimed at taking
out the most powerful obstacle to the
Tories plans.
Restrictions on unions right to fund
political parties will not apply to the
millionaires and billionaires that back the
Tories.
The trade union movement cannot afford
to allow such an outrageous attack. The
right to organise and use collective action
are basic rights. We wont stand by and
watch them destroyed.

To work with the Peoples Assembly,

Unite the Resistance and other antiausterity organisations to build the
widest possible resistance to Tory rule.
To call on our national union to work
with other trade unions, campaign
groups and the TUC to organise the
biggest possible campaign of meetings,
ralliesand action to defend the right
to strike against austerity.
To call on our union to initiate with other
unions and the TUC a demonstration
against austerity and racism at the Tory
party conference in Manchester on
Sunday 4 October.
To initiate with other unions and the TUC
a demonstration for union freedoms
and rights on the day that parliament
discusses the new anti-union laws.
To initiate a serious debate amongst
members on the issue of our union being
prepared to break unjust anti-union laws
if they are used against our movement.
To affiliate to Unite the Resistance and to
support its local and regional initiatives.
Cost: 100 national affiliation/ 25 local
affiliation/ 10 individual
Please make cheques payable to Unite
the Resistance and send to:
UtR, c/o Bookmarks, 1 Bloomsbury
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