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Implementation

Implementation

Implementation

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.

Implementing 2015 Resolutions

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