Motion in support of How We Fight, How We Win: a Rank-and-File Organising Conference

Goldsmiths ucu log

This motion was passed by a GUCU Branch Meeting on Monday, 19 April 2023

This branch notes:

  1. The Conservative government’s commitment to making workers bear the burden of the cost-of-living crisis, primarily through real-terms pay cuts.
  1. The biggest wave of strike action in decades, including major national strikes, across a range of sectors including rail, post, education, health and the civil service in response to attacks on pay.
  1. Widespread popular support for workers taking action.

This branch believes:

  1. The strikes by a range of trade unions have been a hugely welcome and necessary development, which offer the best chance of defending workers’ pay and conditions and challenging this government’s priorities in general.
  1. The strike movement needs to be widened and deepened for workers’ to win our full demands. Coordination of strike action over pay and living standards across the trade union movement is essential to building a broad, united labour movement response to this government’s attacks on working people and their unions.
  1. In order to achieve this, more discussion and organisation amongst rank-and-file workers across the trade union movement is necessary. 

This branch resolves:

  1. To support the How We Fight How We Win rank-and-file conference in London on 10 June.
  1. Make a donation of £200 towards the organising costs of the conference.
  1. Publicise the conference and encourage branch members and other trade unionists in the area to attend.