FBU political fund a model for the CWU?

[Big Daz]

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Political Work

The FBU's political work is central to all of the Union's campaigns to win the best deal for FBU members in the workplace.

Our campaigns - NO2 Fire Deaths campaign, our IRMP strategy, the battle for members working the retained duty system, the fight against regional controls and the defence of your pensions - involve lobbying and influencing politicians in Westminster, Brussels, on local councils, the devolved parliament of Scotland, and the Northern Ireland and Welsh Assemblies.

Getting our message across to politicians is also crucial in our efforts, alongside other unions, for improved health and safety legislation, union and employment rights.

Our political fund, recently renewed by a large majority by FBU members in a ballot, allows us to finance these campaigns.

Following the 2004 annual conference decision to disaffiliate from the Labour Party, we have more money to spend on broad education programmes aimed at boosting the Union's capacity to fight political campaigns in a rapidly changing environment.

In the coming months, we will be pressing ahead with other initiatives aimed at strengthening our political work, including widening the FBU's current parliamentary group to ensure a greater impact on policy making now and in the future.

FBU members' participation in the political side of our campaigning is essential. In addition to being providers of an essential public service and a 'cost' to the public purse, we are all ratepayers, taxpayers and users of local and national public services.

Your voice, your vote - and those of your families - matters to councillors and MPs.

This website aims to make it easier for you lobby and influence politicians - and to get your Union's policies and demands across to them. Make use of it!

[belle smith]

I'd sign up for that.

[Wessex]

The CWU should only fund those Labour MP's that support us.Why money should be given to support the likes of Mandelson, Mc Fadden and the others that want to break the Union and ruin RM as a public service is beyond me.I think the Firefighter's move is the way forward

[belle smith]

The CWU should only fund those Labour MP's that support us.Why money should be given to support the likes of Mandelson, Mc Fadden and the others that want to break the Union and ruin RM as a public service is beyond me.I think the Firefighter's move is the way forward

You can add Alistair Darling to that list.

[Big Daz]

Money isnt given to them.

Policy at this moment in time is we affiliate to the Labour Party , not individuals in the Labour party. All money goes to the Labour party bank accounts at local, regional and national level. The LP will use that money for all sorts of things.

At the general eelction it is CWU policy at this moment in time is not to help with the funding of Labours GE campaign, in the event of a complete reversal of Government policy towards RM then that may change, untill then its affilation fees only.

There may be consequences of not funding Labour at the GE in terms of being able to continue with affilation. However I dont think many members will shed any tears over that.

[DirtyHarry]

That the CWU still insists on funding New Liebour, is a crime. About time it was stopped. New Liebour have done nothing but batter postal workers almost from day one of their miserable tenure.
As somebody has already stated, by all means support those Labour MPs that have stood by us, but for God's sake, let's put a halt to inadvertently supporting financially, the likes of Mandelson, McFadden, and the other traitors to Socialism.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Actually I wonder if that's worth a Poll question - along the lines of would you be more likely to pay into the Political Fund if the CWU disaffiliated from Labour and/or paid only those more likely to support the CWUs aims

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