help the strike

[nobodies hero]

I have been told 50p of our subs to the union goes to the labour party !

Now that would be 80 thousand a week at least if we all stopped it.

I have been told all the guys at crewe have phoned wages and stopped this payment to try to shaft the labour party into helping us.

can any of you comment on this ?

[IWW Fellow Worker]

I have been told 50p of our subs to the union goes to the labour party !

Now that would be 80 thousand a week at least if we all stopped it.

I have been told all the guys at crewe have phoned wages and stopped this payment to try to shaft the labour party into helping us.

can any of you comment on this ?

The political fund is 20p per week. Only part of that goes to that shower. You can opt out. It seems to be a growing trend.

[baldrick]

There's quite a few threads on here about the CWU giving money to Labour. I don't think your figure of 50p a week is correct.
I know the political levy was 10p a week five years ago. Someone on here has said it is 20p a week now. But not all of it goes to the Labour Party. Some is returned to your CWU Branch's Political Fund for political campaigning (affiliation/donations to campaigns, campaigning against privatisation/closures, organising rallies/demos etc.) And the bulk is retained by the CWU nationally for political campaigning.
Personally I would like to see the CWU disaffiliate from Labour as they are just taking our money and kicking us in the teeth.
But it is in the CWU rules and to change the rule would take a two-thirds majority at Conference.
I do think though that the CWU National Executive Committee should suspend any payment to Labour until the current dispute is resolved - we could put the money to better use taking out newspaper adverts putting our case across to the public.

[IWW Fellow Worker]

There's quite a few threads on here about the CWU giving money to Labour. I don't think your figure of 50p a week is correct.
I know the political levy was 10p a week five years ago. Someone on here has said it is 20p a week now. But not all of it goes to the Labour Party. Some is returned to your CWU Branch's Political Fund for political campaigning (affiliation/donations to campaigns, campaigning against privatisation/closures, organising rallies/demos etc.) And the bulk is retained by the CWU nationally for political campaigning.
Personally I would like to see the CWU disaffiliate from Labour as they are just taking our money and kicking us in the teeth.
But it is in the CWU rules and to change the rule would take a two-thirds majority at Conference.
I do think though that the CWU National Executive Committee should suspend any payment to Labour until the current dispute is resolved - we could put the money to better use taking out newspaper adverts putting our case across to the public.

If they disaffiliated and used the money for the purpose you mention, I'd opt back in again.

[mylegshurt]

yesterdays press if u choose to believe them, states tthat brown wants 6 million from the uniions to help his snatch election. if we give him this i am seiously going to consider going bmp . and yes i am seriouse. so fecked of with all this political correctness bollocks. labour aint labour no more, tories r a joke as lib dems and the greens.i want my country and its core values back. for all people whatever creed class colour or social economic class.

[cjp]

Totally agree with MYLEGSHURT

[jackdaw]

Me too, in my eye's this is'nt just a fight for my job, it's turned into a fight to save our country. What leighton is doing seems to have Browns backing and with the Prime ministers refusal to honour his promises our fight has taken on a larger meaning.

[eian687]

we should all cancel the levy from our union fees
ALso with all this talk of a general election the we should refuse to deliver there election crap

[mylegshurt]

cip and jack glad you see sence im not rascist so dont think that, but so pissed of with labour not being labour as we knew it.