NSSN TUC Rally - fight for general election
The National Shop Stewards Network lobby of the annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) took place on Sunday Sept 8th 2019.
For the 10th successive year, hundreds of TUC Congress delegates, union members and anti-cuts campaigners along with climate change activists attended the National Shop Stewards Network rally in Brighton before the start of TUC Congress.
The main issue was the need for a general election to replace Boris Johnson’s Tory government with one led by Jeremy Corbyn and the policies for workers’ rights that he outlined in his speech at the TUC.
Rob Williams, chair of the NSSN, opened the rally, at the Holiday Inn on the Brighton sea front by the TUC conference venue. he called on the TUC and the unions to name the date for a union-led demonstration against Tory prime minister Boris Johnson, demanding a general election to bring in a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government on a pro-worker, anti-austerity manifesto that builds on the programme he stood on two years ago -- of re-nationalisation, a £10 minimum wage and the abolition of tuition fees.
The main speakers were Dave Ward CWU General Secretary, Howard Beckett Unite Assistant General Secretary, Amy Murphy USDAW President, Ronnie Draper BFAWU General Secretary, Mick Cash RMT General Secretary, Steve Gillan POA General Secretary, Fran Heathcote PCS President, Rob Williams NSSN Chair, Katrine Williams NSSN Vice-Chair and Linda Taaffe NSSN Secretary chaired the rally.
Full report: shopstewards.net/2019/09/nssn-...
Video cuts of individual speakers available on request.