the peak period of the holiday season. A big turn-out is vital for the chances of fighting on. NHS staff will march in support of their pay demands on July 29, a date clearly chosen to be at SUPPORT for a national minimum wage based on one half median male carnings, the repeal of all Tory anti-union laws, and a commitment to full employment and public ownership were hardly a resounding support for the Blairite proFAIR PAY gramme. FOR ALL NHS STAFF The TGWU's biennial delegate conference of July con. NO CUTS IN firmed the crushing victory of Bill Moms over Blairite pretender Jack Dromey.
Despite the media coverage of Blair's anti-union messed there was hardly a voice in dissent from the positions of One of the few areas to gencrate any passion was coust opportunities. The leadership conceded that it had failed to properly the appall. ingly low participation of women. black and disabled lic mods in the union A molin on lespian and gay equality was carried despite vociferous opposition from homophobic elements in the conference.
The TGWU remains firmly under the control of an unaccountable and secretive broad left. Calls for specific actions, and anything that threatened to be controversial, were carefully filleted out at the compo.
The union seems to have pulled through a period of serious financial difficulties. It remains a crucial bulwark against the right in the labour movement.
But the stranglehold of a bureaucratic broad left contin. ues to restrict the potential for a powerful challenge to the Tories now, and to any future attacks on its members.