The AEEU must abandon its 'sweetheart deals' or be expelled from the TUC. The undersigned trade union members believe that the method of the AEEU in signing single union agreements over the heads of existing unions, and with ut the agreement of a workdocree, constitutes a threat to the labour move

up the exploitation of the workforce. Employers are using the AEEU to keep out genuinely independent unions, which represent the interests of their mem- behalf of a workforce who are not their members, on wages and conditions which are worse than in the rest of the railway infrastructure sector. the right to ballot under the new legislation. ers. Moreover, in the case of the J-VC on the railway, they have agreed, on cratic rights of workers. It is the employers who chose the AEEU, not the work- Coast Main Line railway, and with employers in the North Sea, deny workers the North Sea Oil Industry the employers have used the AEEU to deny workers the right to chose the union which they want to represent them. In the case of In this case the AEU is acting as an agent of the bosses to help them drive These methods are a fundamental challenge to the trade union and demo- The single union deals signed with the Joint Venture Company on the West ing themselves to the employers ale workforce, and existing unions, and give a commitment to abandon these from agreements which have been reached with companies over the heads of AEEU. Its leaders should be presented with an utimatum: either withdraw nethods, or else it should be expelled from the TUC. Please PRINT Position held Retum to: SOLIDARITY, 333 Welcombe Avenue, Park North. Swindon SN3 2PF