Motion 50
Council Cuts
“That this Congress recognises the importance of sustained local action, with the bringing together of community organisations, trades union branches, and trades union councils when campaigning against SNP, Labour, and Tory budget cuts.
“Congress supports efforts on the ground to build a united front of trade unions and community organisations, recognising the necessity of mobilising a mass movement to challenge the cuts agenda of the Tory Government and its implementation by local councils of all colours.
“The big corporations, such as the energy companies and the supermarkets make super profits, while the gap between the super-rich and the poor continues to grow at an ever faster pace.
“Finance can be found instantly for military adventures. The profits of the military/industrial complex soar as public services are hollowed out.
“Clearly the money is there, it is just in the wrong hands.
“Congress recognises the trade union movement needs to take the leading role.
“With tens of thousands of jobs lost in local Government and services gutted it is long past the time for a militant fightback.
“Congress supports calls that have been made at local level for councils to refuse to implement cuts in services and publish budgets that meet the needs of their communities.
“Congress believes any action to remove councils who publish no cuts budgets and replace them with Scottish Government administrators should be met with campaigning for Needs Budgets in the local elections that would be required to be held.
“Congress believes through campaigning such a strategy could win wide support and cause a political crisis for the austerity policies of Government and the tame councillors who have meekly managed the decline of their communities over the past couple of decades.”
Mover: Clydebank Trades Union Council
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