THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Scottish TUC narrowly defeated a resolution *any incomes policy having as its aim wage regulation through interference from any source in free collective bargaining', which also demanded that pay deals should "include protection against inflation'.
The motion 1017 votes to 967. But although the outcome of the voting demoralised many delegates, behind it lay many Important WHICH taken place inside union delegations.
delegation agreed by support the Composite D resolution rejecting any Phase 3 incomes opposing policy.
Jones's speech at the Scottish TUC Was screaming 'Jones Buries the Social Contract'. But he was very careful to explain his exact position at a wages press conference: We do not want massive and strikes to ruin the economy. can maintain a sensible approach to free collective bargaining without a big explosion, but rigid pay policy is unrealistic. паУс That inis was rejected by Jones's own union 18-12 for the defeat of Composite D were the delegates from the Amalgamated Union workers. Al a time when mich greeted by headlines members are in the forefront of current actions against wage rest raint, the delegation accepted inthat last year's decision to support massive aSO We support Phase 3 ed, as the Fire Brigades Union did in a similar situation, Composite D would have been passed *sensible approach comfortable majority. The main culprits responsible of Engineering their leadership bound them Had the AUEW merely abstain Dy CUTS.
There were other, more satisof low pay for women' and that industrial action by solidarity and support from the organised trade union movement can achieve equa.
instructed the STUC General Council to mount a campaign for women to be paid Ene wage a man would receive if he were doing the same job'.
Congress aSO voted to oppose the closure of four Scottish colleges or education, to demand Government action to restote the •Call To Scottish homosexuals to have the rights as those in England