{"id":23663,"date":"2020-09-15T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T10:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=23663"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T12:07:03","slug":"were-going-to-have-to-win-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=23663","title":{"rendered":"‘We’re going to have to win it’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On the second and final day of this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s TUC Congress on Tuesday (September 15), proceedings began with a vital debate about preventing unemployment and building back a better recovery post-pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner, moved the main composite of the debate, and began by paying tribute to the millions of workers now fighting for their jobs in a range of industries from aviation, tourism and hospitality to retail, culture and manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He thanked members who are \u00e2\u20ac\u015bfighting redundancies and opportunistic fire and rehire attacks on our terms and conditions, creating safe workplaces and public transport options to ensure safe travel, and protecting skills and apprenticeships, offering real hope to our young workers and using downtime to upskill and retrain a workforce for the challenges ahead\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlighting the general council statement<\/a>, Turner said \u00e2\u20ac\u015bit speaks for itself\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, noting that  \u00e2\u20ac\u015bit details the role our movement played in securing furlough and identifies the actions now required of government if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not to abandon our class and communities to an impending tsunami of job losses and 1930\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s levels of unemployment\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner went on to call for \u00e2\u20ac\u015ba new targeted pay protection scheme for short-time working and downtime upskilling\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, one that sits alongside \u00e2\u20ac\u015ba programme of industrial and company investment to safeguard industries vital to our recovery, and a job guarantee scheme for our young\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also called for investment in and protection of skills, knowledge, tools and plants \u00e2\u20ac\u015bnecessary to meet the challenges of the future\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning to Brexit, Turner highlighted \u00e2\u20ac\u015bthe impending disaster of a no deal exit from Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 and \u00e2\u20ac\u015bthe need to secure fair not free trade deals and a just transition to meet the urgency of the climate emergency\u00e2\u20ac\u0165.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He warned Congress that none of the trade union movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s demands will be met alone by simply passing a motion, for example, or writing letters to the prime minister or meeting with the chancellor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got six weeks to win the on-going support we demand,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added, referring to the time period left until the furlough scheme is slated to end on October 31. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to take every ounce of our strength to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to have to win it —  in our workplaces and communities, on street corners, buses and the march to confront our MPs in every UK constituency,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our responsibility, our duty, to raise a call to arms and to inspire and mobilise our members, our families and communities to join us,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 Turner went on to say. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnited in common purpose, our movement can and will win this fight, striking a blow for our members, our class, our communities, against those willing to abandon us all in the name of free market ideology.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urging Congress to support the statement, he called on the trade union movement to do all they can to help in the fight to secure additional government support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bLet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not wake up on November 1 wishing we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d done more,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Hajera Blagg<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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