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Resolution 5 (continued)

leaseholders and opposes it where the aim is for private developers to cash in

and make loads of money while existing tenants and leaseholders face being

kicked out of their homes.

(4) This BGCM deplores the lack of social housing being provided by the present

Government, is aware of the affordable housing crisis and believes much

more should be done to build more affordable homes. This Conference calls

for GFTU affiliates to:

call on the Labour Party to investigate using council homes as a cash

machine to bridge funding gaps.

give local authorities the right to actively purchase houses from the open

market, e.g. ex-council houses and empty properties to increase the

stock of social housing in their area

call on the Government to provide funding for a major house-building

programme to build social housing to meet these needs and as a

consequence provide thousands of much needed jobs to boost

devastated local economies.

actively campaign for the reintroduction of policies such as the Fair Rent

Act and to pressure the Labour Party to commit to a sustained building

programme once in power, to publicise services available which will help

those faced with housing difficulties.

Resolution 6

UK Manufacturing

(1) This BGCM is appalled at the deeply unpatriotic way that the Coalition

Government is running down UK manufacturing, in favour of foreign

ownership of British industry and using free market globalisation as

the reason. This Conference calls on the government to support the

manufacturing industry. The policy of pure competition in the world market

is leading to a decline in UK manufacturing

(2) The last thirty years has seen the increasing tide of the free market and

globalisation, which has eroded the British manufacturing base, seen

privatised UK services and increased foreign ownership of key parts of the UK

economic infrastructure

(3) This BGCM believes that the UK Government should ensure, through its own

procurement, but also giving a lead through a drive to buy British, that all

must be done to reinvigorate and restore UK manufacturing.

(4) This Conference calls

on the GFTU to campaign for greater support for our Manufacturing

Sector

for the GFTU and affiliates to lobby for an unequivocal commitment to

reverse Coalition procurement methods where everything is based on

price and to commit to processing goods and services in government

from companies based in the UK.

Resolution 7

White Ribbon Campaign

(1) This BGCM notes that whilst both men and women can experience domestic

violence, the majority of the victims are women and the majority of the

perpetrators are men. Police in the UK receive one domestic violence call

every minute, which is even more shocking given that less than half of

incidents are reported.

Considerable success has been achieved in gaining

a new general recognition that the dominance

of speculation and the financial sector must be

reversed.The GFTU has maintained solidarity with

all affiliates notably in the steel industry seeking

to save steel production. We have met with new

centres of manufacturing and technological

excellence to promote a rebuilding of the skill

based of the manufacturing sector.

Promotion of this campaign has taken place over

the last two years.

Implementing 2015 Resolutions

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