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Annual Report 2014 SERTUC annual report 2 01 4 About the region SERTUC, the Southern & Eastern Region of the TUC, is the largest of the TUC’s regions and covers three European parliamentary constituencies: London, the South East, and East of England. Two million trades unionists live and work within the region. The Regional Council is appointed annually by affiliates and county associations of trades councils and meets four times a year to discuss both how to achieve policy determined at the national Trades Union Congress and to make specific policies on regional issues. At its Annual General Meeting it elects officers and an Executive Committee that meets monthly. Affiliated trade unions and county associations also nominate to SERTUC’s industrial and equality subgroups who use their workplace and life experience to inform the activities of the Regional Council. SERTUC staff administer the Regional Council, deliver services to affiliates, represent the TUC in relations with public bodies, campaign for Congress policies, and SERTUC deliver learning and education to workers in Congress House the Region. Great Russell Street There are 11 members of staff and a full list London WC1B 3LS with contact details is on page 39 020 7467 1220 President’s foreword defences each year, and that wasn’t true either. Well, what should we expect, he used to work in PR. Is Osborne a hero or a villain? Did his ‘Plan A’ save Britain? The truth is that the British economy is growing, albeit slowly, despite Osborne’s austerity programme, and not David Cameron is a liar, or stupid, or both. because of it. Remember the growth targets He said that a government led by him would missed in 2 01 0-11, 2 011-1 2 and 2 01 2-1 3, not fix the deficit in a way that made the remember that Britain’s national debt is now poor poorer, that harmed public services, or hundreds of billions of pounds higher than divided Britain. Witness hundreds of he projected in 2 01 0 and remember that the thousands more people living in poverty, deficit will not be eliminated by 2 01 5, as he punishing benefit cuts, and riots on our promised. Remember that the economy is streets. Witness the attempts to drive a still smaller than it was in 2008, which is wedge between benefit recipients and the evidence of three (plus) wasted and painful rest of society, and the scape-goating of years. And note that the growth we have is migrant workers. He said that any minister in driven by increasing house prices and debt- his government who wanted to cut front fuelled consumer spending, not the increase line services would have to come and see in private sector investment and export him at his office. Well, there must be a long drive that Osborne predicted. On the queue outside Dave’s office on most days. contrary, private sector investment is down He said that the NHS was safe in his hands and our import/export balance is a and there would be no top down re- shambles. Cable and Carney agree: we have organisation. Witness the massive attack on the wrong sort of growth. the NHS and rampant privatisation of its Think on these facts about Cameron’s services. He said that spending on health Britain. We have had the biggest fall in real would be protected in real terms, but the wages for a hundred years and a cost of UK Statistics Authority rebuked him when living crisis. We have more than a million spending on the NHS went down. people on zero hours contracts. We have Meanwhile, the ‘whole truth’ is that this had ruthless cuts in the benefits paid to the government plans health spending to be 9.2 most vulnerable people in our society. We per cent lower per head in 2 01 8-1 9 than it now have more children who are living in was in 2 01 0-11. Cameron said that his poverty, resident in households where at government has spent more on flood least one person works, than in workless 1 households. And we have the national tougher, but at this moment politics in this shame of the use of food banks increasing country are febrile and in the balance. The by 50 per cent per year, such that more next general election, which will be in June than half a million people were dependent 201 5 at the latest, will be the most important upon them last year. And contrast those since 197 9. We have a chance to build a facts with this: during the recession the stronger fairer Britain, and we must have richest 1,000 people in Britain increased their vaulting ambition, unity and a clear wealth by £1 90bn. Austerity economics are programme. working, transferring wealth from the It is often said that politics is far too poorest to the wealthy, and that was always important to be left to politicians. It is true. its core objective. The choice offered at the next general Should we be surprised? Are Cameron and election must not be between austerity Osborne fools? No, this is government for economics and austerity-lite economics. the rich, by the rich. Cameron and Osborne We need a ‘can do’ government with a bold speak platitudes and nonsense, but they programme; growth, an industrial strategy, practice naked class politics. massive infrastructure investment, fair pay, We watched a world dominated by full employment, a youth jobs guarantee, tax capitalism, casino banking, markets, justice and decent welfare standards, a privatisation and greed, fail. Then we were million new low cost public sector homes, forced to pay for its redemption. And now public services, stronger employment rights, we are told that our future depends upon an active commitment to an equalities even more rapacious capitalism, suppressed strategy and a recognition that unions are a pay, worse employment rights and savage force for good and a force for progressive cuts to public services. change in society. I recommend the People’s Charter to all trade unionists. This is a crucial moment in history. Can the Tories persuade enough of the public to fall Sadly, Nelson Mandela died this year, but his for their scam and bluster? Now they have work was done. He was not perfect but he the audacity to call the Conservative Party a was a revolutionary, the father of a nation, workers’ party. Well not from where I am the liberator of the South African people, standing it aint, and it never has been. It is black and white, and he remains a politician the party of privilege, greed and inequality, who is an inspiration to people across the run by posh boys who famously ‘do not planet. Compared to him, Cameron and know the price of a bottle of milk ’. Osborne are pin-pricks on history. The government has inflicted defeats on us We should follow Mandela’s example: be in the last year, not least the privatisation of confident that we are right, express a clear the Royal Mail, and the massive rip-off, as programme based on fundamental the shares were sold at half their true value. principles, build alliances with progressive And savage cuts to the fire service despite forces, educate all who will listen, organise, overwhelming opposition from the public. campaign and struggle. Above all we must have hope and we must give hope to others. But it is our task as trade unionists to understand where we are and how we got Trade unionism remains the hope of the here, to explain to others and to educate world and it is our duty to make our future the many, to describe an alternative world a socialist one, with trade unionism at its and to convince the many that it is possible core. to build it, and to give hope. The year that Martin Gould passed was tough, this year will probably be SERTUC President 2 Secretary’s introduction It’s been an interesting year. “Interesting” contributes his expertise on transport issues in the nature of the (alleged, but probably on a weekly basis, including this year untrue) Chinese curse. Certainly we are preparing a briefing paper on the cursed by a ConDem government, but complexities of funding for the CrossRail more of that elswhere. This annual report project for our Canadian brothers and will give you a flavour of the activities of sisters in Toronto and by joining the TUC’s SERTUC, affiliates and trades councils in the Action for Rail steering group. Dick Muskett Region, but I begin with thanks. who has given invaluable support to our Thanks firstly to our officers, Martin Gould , Pensioners Network at the same time as Tony Lennon , Linda Perks and Carolyn being the motor for the London Simpson . Their support and contribution Unemployed Strategies project and acting as over the year has been invaluable. the secretary to its management committee. Peta Steel , journalist and writer, who Secondly to the thousands of trade union researched and wrote our publication on officers and activists in the Region who do the Spithead and Nore mutinies. These the work that exposes the wider population voluntary additions to our capacity have to the policies developed, through our made an enormous difference and we thank democratic structures, by the TUC and them all. SERTUC. In the face of a largely hostile media, without them we would be a close- And finally, I thank the SERTUC staff. kept secret hidden from the public. We have had a difficult year with cuts to unionlearn funding leading to loss of jobs.
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