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Implementation
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Resolution 12
Representation on GFTU Executive Committee
(1) SUE Executive committee reaffirms the importance and value to our
members of GTFU affiliation. In particular we commend the education
courses through which many of our members have gained new skills and
experience.
(2) SUE wish to support the future expansion of GFTU affiliates and encourage
those non affiliated unions to join. In particular we feel that affiliation is of
significant value to those smaller organisation like ourselves, who whilst
modest in membership number are mighty in terms of the impact we have
at the workplace on behalf of members.
(3) As part of efforts from GFTU to attract other affiliates it is important that
their voices are heard and are properly represented on the GFTU executive
committee.
We therefore call for the GFTU to bring forward a rule change that would
facilitate smaller organisations being represented on the GFTU executive and
urge affiliates to support such a rule change should it be tabled.
Resolution 13
Data Collection T&C’s
(1) Conference notes at present employees working for Trade Unions are often
represented by other trade Unions who in the outside world are competitors
to the employer, or are offered in house ‘federations to ‘represent’ their
interests’. Trade Unions as employers are notoriously shy in publishing details
of terms and Conditions offered to their staffs.
(2) For the reasons above Conference agrees to instruct the incoming GFTU
Executive to set up a database of terms and conditions of workers who are
employed by Trade Unions, and publish the first directory of such by the next
bi-annual conference. Conference further believes this is a first but necessary
step in bringing some transparency and collective values to the annual cycle
of bargaining within the trade union movement.
Resolution 14
Public Ownership of the Railways
(1) That this Conference recognises that the privatised railway has failed on all of
the measures claimed as the reasons for its existence:
•
Competition between train operators is virtually non-existent after
franchises have been let;
•
Instead of cheaper services, passengers now have to pay the highest
fares in Europe with a real terms increase of at least 23% since 1995;
•
Far from reducing, annual subsidy to the industry now stands at £5.3
billion, over double that received by British Rail
•
Genuine private sector capital only amounts to 1% of all rail investment,
the rest being underwritten by tax payers
•
Train operating companies together continue to extract significant
profits amounting to over £200 million a year, even when half of them
receive subsidies for socially necessary services.
(2) Instead of reforming the current system, however, successive governments
have sought to maintain it for politically dogmatic reasons whilst refusing to
countenance public ownership despite the success of East Coast Trains, taken
into state ownership in 2009 upon the failure of the previous franchise.
This resolution was implemented.
At this stage there is no appetite amongst affiliated
unions to develop this work.
A new HR officers CPD group was created by the
GFTU.
Employment and management of union
employees figured on the Trade Union
Management programme training and the Union
Building Conference.
Thanks to the work of the main rail unions there
is now significant and widespread public support
for this policy and it features highly in Labour Party
policy.
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