TUC leaders have been forced into a dramatic climbdown over Trades Councils. After abolishing the Trades Councils' annual conference and their coordinating body last October, the TUC General Council have been forced to back The about-face was the result of a sustained campaign by the Trades Councils to win back their national support, including an unofficial national conEmbankment March to Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park for Rally leaders had sent out a circular rescinding their withdrawal of suppe mood of Congress delegates was overwhelmingly in support of the Trades Councils' campaign- Willie O'Brien of the train drivers' union the moves to reverse the dietatorial and anti-democratic decision on Trades Councils and related issues. Now we want that diktat chucked away'.
Consultation
The only opposition to the notion came rom the right wing president of the engineers AEU, Bill lordan. that the coordinating body and the annual conference have been reinstated, there will now be a one vear consultatior process on the future role of rades councils.
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