We should be stronger, feel safer, and we can, with fundamental change:

Transforming a top down union, run like a business, to a bottom up one where members decide, the union provides. Bridging the massive divide between the leadership and the members by returning the union to where it belongs – with the members.

Want to help shape our policies?  Come to the SUPPORTERS’ CONFERENCE

11.30 to 4pm, May 7th 2011 Room 3E, University of London Union, Malet Street, WC1

¨     Election of all union officials.

¨     Giving workplaces, branches, combines, sectors and regions, independence and authority over decision making and organisation.

¨     Becoming a fighting union, not just campaigning, for public ownership and against privatisation, for pensions, services.

       ¨     There is an alternative to cuts, for example a Tobin tax' on bank transactions, or reducing tax avoidance, raising £25 to £49 billion each year, or clamping down on tax evasion could double that, or scrapping the 50% pension relief on salaries over £100,000 (which includes our General Secretary and the Assistant General Secretaries!)

..  Spend £25 billion on schools, hospitals, houses, providing100,000 jobs, the first 3,200 to blacklisted workers. £25 billion on green energies creating a million jobs, £25 billion on pensions. Bring the troops home from Afghanistan saving lives and £billions.

¨     Exceptional times will require extraordinary responses and confronting anti-union laws, whether UK or EU, and backing unofficial action when necessary.

¨     Making the Equality and Diversity structures a model for genuine involvement.

¨     Ensuring retired members, a prized asset, have equal rights in the union.

¨     We should only support Labour MPs and councillors who support our policies.