Text of the two motions moved by Community at the 2009 TUC Congress, Liverpool.
Text of the Community Union Motions to TUC Congress 2009
Attacks on Terms and Conditions
Congress recognises the damaging effects of the recession on businesses and charities across the UK. Congress welcomes the work of trade unions to seek viable solutions with employers to getting through the downturn, which safeguard jobs for the future. However, Congress condemns those employers that have seized the recession as an opportunity to attack workers’ terms and conditions with no guarantees of job security in return and condemns those employers that are merely trying to maximise profits while crying poor.
In particular, Congress notes with concern the recession being used as an excuse by employers to further the demise of final salary pension schemes. Congress calls on all unions and the TUC to campaign to defend final salary pension schemes as the best provision for security in retirement.
Save our Steel
Congress recognises the importance of the steel industry to the UK economy. The steel industry supports entire communities in areas away from the metropolitan areas of a service-led economy. Congress notes with concern the many thousands of job losses in the steel industry this year and the continuing effects of the economic downturn on the industry. Steelmaking is crucial to the future of UK manufacturing. Without a domestic steel industry our automotive and aerospace industries would consider relocation to countries that can supply their steel. Therefore, Congress calls on the UK government, in its new spirit of industrial activism, to take a pro-active approach to supporting the bedrock of UK manufacturing - the steel industry.
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