Events

LRC fringe: Keep Trade Unions in Politics

Monday 13th September 2010
11:30am to 12:30pm

Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester

LRC lunchtime fringe meeting at the TUC

With an unprecedented attack on public services, the welfare state, trade union rights and the working class as a whole, there has never been a more important time for trade unions to be engaged in politics. The right of trade unions to intervene in politics is under threat – a real threat to our right to representation through affiliation to a political party. We must defend the right of trade unions to get involved in politics.

Speakers include: Maria Exall (CWU Executive / LRC vice chair), Joe Marino (BFAWU General Secretary), John McDonnell MP (LRC Chair), John McInally (PCS Vice President), MarshaJane Thompson (Chair, Unison United Left)