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Foodworker SUMMER 2013 FOODWORKER 1 SUMMER 2013 WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY R.I.P. JIM McLELLAND OUR TRIBUTES 2 FOODWORKER FOODWORKER 1 EDITOR'S SUMMER 2013 NOTES "The majority of people claiming benefits are workers – who claim in order to subsidise the low level of earnings paid by WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY their employer" R.I.P. JIM McCLELLAND OUR TRIBUTES Ronnie Draper @ronniebfawu INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Crocodile tears Editor's Notes . 2 ANOTHER ANNUAL CONFERENCE is upon us and once again we see the diversity of Whilst I didn’t watch Thatcher’s funeral, I National President . 3 am lead to believe that George Osborne In Tribute, Jim McLelland . 4 thinking across our branches when it shed a few tears. Pity he doesn’t have the Clive Thomas Marathon . 6 comes to setting the agenda. Ninety-five same compassion for those people whose Clive Lewis CND Speech . 7 motions will make sure that the time lives he is destroying with his lamentable Unite the Resistance NW . 8 allotted will be fully taken up with debate, economic policies. Friends of Israel Visit . 9 most of which deal with modernising the Whilst some big businesses and the New ULR for Belfast . 10 rulebook or the effects of government and rich in our society can evade and avoid Gateway and Beyond . 10 outside agencies on our day to day life. due taxes to the tune of £123 billion, Campaign for Labour Democracy April 8th saw Thatcher depart AGM . 11 this mortal coil, but her legacy has Osborne and his cronies can dream up a Join the Party . 11 been morphed into the sinister rag tag tax, every bit as evil as the Poll Tax. TUC Women's Conference . 12 coalition that is our government. Her The dreaded Bedroom Tax is not flagrant disregard for working people an answer to solving the homelessness HEALTH & SAFETY and all they stand for is being continued problem that blights our country. It is just Workers Memorial Day . 13 and built upon by Cameron, Osborne, another excuse to tax the poorer people in FACK Statement . 15 Gove, Duncan-Smith, Grayling and the our society, so that Cameron and his cohorts Co-op backtracks on promises . 16 treacherous Lib-Dem crutch. can appease the right of his own party. 11 Benefits of a Credit Union . 16 Building on Osborne’s conference I live in a £7m Ski Lodge.... speech last year where the demonisation Open Letter to Dunkleys . 17 If it would help solve the problem of a of the poor became the theme for the Solway recruitment . 17 general lack of housing, then let's utilise Benefits Justice Summit . 18 Tory grandees and the right wing press to suppress public outcry, we have seen a the spare rooms in the palaces we have. Historical obituary . 18 Let’s give some living space for the Julie Blackburn on H&S cuts . 19 constant stream of attacks on those living homeless in the second and third houses Union Solicitors . 20 their lives dependent on welfare benefits. of the rich or on their rambling estates. It Trust your Union Solicitors . 21 What Osborne failed to point out is that will never happen while we have an Andy Law's HeadrusH . 21 the majority of people claiming benefits ever-widening class divide – where the Conference Delegates 2013 . 22 are workers who claim to subsidise the low level of earnings paid by their employer. rich get richer and the poor get poorer and Contact Details . 24 nobody in government gives a damn. A proper living wage Where is the economic sense that caps FOODWORKER is published for BFAWU by: There is something immoral when Ronnie Draper at Stanborough House workers have to claim benefits, while welfare benefits at 1% and then penalises Great North Road those with spare bedrooms who have to Stanborough, Welwyn Garden City their employer reaps the benefits and Hertfordshire AL8 7TA takes £millions out of the business in survive on this pittance, between 14–25% Tel: 01707 260150/259450 dividends, leaving taxpayers to subsidise of the value of their rent? The real sting in their exploitation. There needs to be a the tail is that most of these individuals do FOODWORKER is designed and produced not have a choice as there is no alternative for BFAWU by: serious debate about a proper living wage Inscape Solutions Limited instead of the pittance offered under the housing available that matches living 3 Long Hedge Lane minimum wage guarantee. quarters to the size of the family. It is Worthington If the minimum wage is deemed a a heinous tax that was ill thought out, Ashby de la Zouch Leics LE65 1RL liveable wage by members of parliament, that will result in mass homelessness, a dramatic increase in poverty and Tel: 01530 222657 then maybe their inflated salaries should be brought more into line with it? desperation across much of the country. FOODWORKER 3 When it comes to the time to vote, people should remember the savage attacks that NATIONAL PRESIDENT have been inflicted by the Tories, but should remember that they would not have been able to do it without the traitors IAN HODSON of the Lib-Dems – who betrayed their Conference time is here again supporters and, even more, the people of IT’S A TIME when delegates from all over the country will turn their attention to the this country, for the opportunity of 5 years issues they feel we should be dealing with as a union. They will be raising and debating acting as puppets in government. the topics that are being discussed by BFAWU members in branches nationwide. It’s an A stark choice opportunity for everyone involved to express areas of concern that may be impacting on As working people we are going to be them and their families’ lives as well as to shape union policy moving forward. faced with a stark choice. Do we fight This year’s conference will see us build on the successes of last year’s fringe back against the onslaught being waged meeting, by holding another two sessions. The first will deal with organising – upon us or do we meekly accept highlighting some of the new ways to strengthen and build branches. It will include an everything thrown our way and live life on opportunity to understand how members and representatives can become politically our knees? active and should be of great interest to those with a keen interest in understanding what We should expect an incoming Labour it takes to become a local councillor, or even an MP. We will also be holding a Health government to represent their class in & Safety fringe meeting, which will include a presentation from Hilda Palmer; a leading the same way that Thatcher, Major and (and prolific) campaigner from Hazards. Cameron have represented theirs but, alas, The Credit Union will be holding its AGM on the Saturday afternoon and I think I fear that may be beyond our wildest we should recognise the work the current directors have done in turning the Credit dreams. In the meantime, we need to help Union around and ensuring that we offer a significant benefit to our members, with ourselves. The old cliché of fighting like significantly lower interest rates that you simply cannot get on the high street. This is Lions should become our motto if we an important benefit that enables our members to avoid the scandalously high rates of are to defend what is rightly ours. Our interest charged by predatory companies like Wonga. demands should become manifesto issues Joining a union is more important than ever before and our aspirations more than just empty Annual Conference 2013 will also tackle the many political issues we face as a union promises. and as working people. The changes this government has made to working people’s Annual Conference is the ideal lives have been huge and it’s extremely difficult to find any coalition policy that has sounding board for launching our actually benefitted working people and/or those on low incomes. The raising of tax manifesto. We should ensure that thresholds gave the better off far more than those earning the least and any of those our activists have the backing of the fortunate enough to have received membership when debating contentious pay increases have seen them issues. simply wiped out, due to hikes in Remembering Jim VAT and benefit cuts. Conference this year will also be a very It’s no coincidence that sombre occasion as it will be the first year the steady decline in UK without Bro Jim McLelland who was so Trade Union membership tragically taken from us on 16th March. has run parallel with a rise in Jim was not only a fantastic trade pay inequality, with workers unionist, he was also a great personal becoming more vulnerable friend. His warm, friendly character was through the introduction of less only matched by his tenacity to succeed. secure contracts and easy-to-hire- He was always ready to pick up the and-fire agency workers. Joining cudgel to defend the little guy against a Union is more important now injustice which at times would bring than ever and we need to start him problems with those in opposition. reversing this trend before So long as the outcome was right, Jim it’s too late. was happy and I have to say I never Our Union heard a complaint from anyone who he prides itself on represented. removing barriers I will miss his smiles, the jokes, the and supporting its few drinks and even his singing on the members both Karaoke, as I’m sure we all will.
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