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Model motion on anti-union laws

This union branch/committee notes:

This branch/committee resolves:

The Tories have declared war on the trade

union movement. They want to shackle
our trade unions with more legislation,
despite Britain already having the most
draconian laws in Western Europe.

To build the biggest possible turnout

of our members for the 4 October
demonstration at the Tory party
conference in Manchester called by the
TUC, and the events called by the Peoples
Assembly from 3-7 October in Manchester.

The Tories want to impose new balloting

thresholds for legal strike action, with a
50 percent turnout and 40 percent of all
those eligible having to vote yes in any
ballot involving workers in essential
services. If these were applied to general
elections, some 270 Tory MPs presently
in the House of Commons would remain
unelected. New laws are being proposed
by a government supported by 24 percent
of the electorate.
The Tories also intend to offer employers
a licence to break strikes. They will make
it legal to use agency workers during
industrial disputes to replace strikers.
With the criminalisation of the right to
picket, the need to give employers two
weeks notice of action, to submit plans for
picketing in advance, and for unions to
reballot after four months 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 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 be destroyed.

To offer the maximum solidarity to all

workers in struggle.
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,
MPs and the TUC to organise the biggest
possible campaign of meetings, rallies
and action to defend the right to strike.
To build for a massive turnout on the
TUC lobby of parliament on 2 November.
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 send delegates to the Peoples
Assembly national conference on 31
October and the Unite the Resistance
national conference on 14 November.
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 Street, London WC1B 3QE