So having discussed in the morning at PDCC what we would recommend to the delegation I had already had a warm up for the afternoon's meeting of our TUC Delegation.
First off was discussing our policy on motions submitted to this years Congress. Most of this was uncontroversial so our policy is to support, with some were we are deferring our support so we can seek either further clarification from the submitting union or the view of UNISON bodies (such as women's committee on a women's motion).
There are two motions that we wish to oppose, one which would undermine the bargaining mechanism in local government and one which supports raising the compulsory education or training age to 18. The raising of the leaving age which is compulsory has been opposed by UNISON as we believe that 16 year olds should have full adult rights and responsibilities and our members working in education have concerns about the behaviour and motivation of those compelled to stay on.
We then discussed amendments to motions, with three amendments being put forward to motion 02 on the national minimum wage, motion 05 on agency workers and motion 21 on the Discrimination Law Review. All these amendments enhance motions which we felt needed some strengthening and some emphasis on important issues for UNISON. They where uncontroversial and approved with minor adjustments.
I'm really looking forward to my first TUC Congress - I'll let you know what I think of it once I've been.
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You should feel really good you've made it to Rogers Blog!!
http://jonrogers1963.blogspot.com/2007/08/preparations-for-tuc-continue-whilst.html
Though I needed to use wikipaedia to find out what he meant about me! Just don't know my classics well enough, state education eh
Do you think then that as part of 16 year olds having full adult rights it includes the right to be ina formal combat situation? I ask this as the EU managed to get the UK armed forces to stop sending people under 18 to the front line?
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