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"The threshold agrooments
(a)
(b)
of special payments:
living.
of the payment.
family budgets.
"Congress instructs the student grants and other state benefite *That this Congress declares that in order to combat growing inflation which threatens the living standards of working people. it is in favour of all affiliated unions negotiating cost of living clauses in all wage agreements. The cost of living clause should be designed to cover increases in the cost of living with normal wage hargaining taking place over and above this.
went only part of the way to caver for increases in the cost of living. The cost of living clauses should strengthen the thresbold payments by:
negotiating nil-norm thresholds instead of the 7% threshold under previous agreements; making monthly cost of living payments straight forward additions to the basic wage instead of the previous system (c) the General Council should encourage trades councils and alitiated unions to participate in the setting up of Consumer Price Committees in each area to check price rises in each arca and to work out an area consumer price index which gives a true reflection of rises in the cost of " The 40p for each 1% increase under the threshold agreements was inadequate in that it did not take into account taxation Governmen! higures on cost of living increases ure inadequate in thal these do not take into account differences from area to area and which items are most common to working class General Council to mobilise the Strength of the Trade Union Movement to ensure that these cost of living safeguards are extended to all pensions, unemployment pay, to threshold payments revolution. olber.