Garfield Hylton, GMB member at Amazon Coventry (personal capacity), addresses the National Shop Stewards Network conference 2023.
This year’s NSSN Conference comes at a crucial time for the trade union movement. The new Tory anti-union ‘Minimum Service Level’ Bill could be law within weeks - raising the potential fining of unions and sacking of workers. We have a model motion on this new Tory attack, to aid the discussion at conference.
But this isn’t the act of a strong and powerful Tory Government - far from it. Sunak is leading a weak and divided Conservative administration, with Johnson forced out and Tory MPs resigning.
Workers and unions are fighting back as the strike wave grows against the cost of living squeeze. The NSSN believes that we are at our strongest when we strike together