TROD Currency convergence requires driving down wages-especially those of young workers ion. Some openly admit that they have nodded through the TUC policy without having read the documents.
Others, like John Fdmonds and AEEU leaders, have joined employers in pressing the case for the single currency, regardless of the savage toll such a policy would take on public sector jobs and welfare services.
Even those who have edged towards an opposition stance, like TGWU leader Bill Morris, have done so tentatively, arguing on the one hand that "Britain cannot turn its back on Europe in these circumstances without finding itself all but alone", while pointing out on the other that under the Maastricht rules "a single currency could spell a jobs catastrophe for British industry", and calling timidly for a referendum.
UNISON debated the single currency at its conference this vear-and voted overwhelmingly to reject it. Yet none of UNISON's national officials will publicly argue the union's policy.
The fight on this issue must be taken into every section of the trade union and labour movement.
It is vital that the left takes the initiative, sounding the alarm against a single currency which could devastate our public services.