Union political funds: No pick-and-mix politics
By Gerry Bates Not the sort of TUC Congress we have become accustomed to in recent years! The outspoken challenges to New Labour at this year's TUC by Mark Serwotka, Bob Crow, Mick Rix, Derek Simpson and others of the "new generation" of union leaders put the question of union political funds into a new light. Do we want to hear the same sort of outspoken challenge from the unions at the Labour Party conference at the end of September? We do.