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TCJCC (none at present) and the right of trades councils as well as County Associations of Trades Councils to submit motions and amendments: However, following successfyl reference back in 1982 (there was none this year) CATCs will in future be able to submit amendments.
The platform was overturned on one issue only, when it was told to press the TUC to campaign for financial support to be given to the British Pensioners and Trade Unions Action Association. (There is no other national inter-union pensioners' organisation).
True to instructions, none of the 40-odd motions challenged TuC policy. The nuclear disarament composite called on the TUC to campaign for its unilateralist policy.
A similar call made last year has been ignored by the TUC, and the platform failed to respond to the "union turn" inside CND -the need for blacking and strike actions to prevent the deployment of Cruise was barely discussed.
The TCJCC agreed to send a "telegram" of support to Greenham for the May 24 Women's Day of Action. Since telegrams were abolished last year, this announcement reflects the restricted nature of the debate on The election and jobs were the subjects of a "Labour government elected on socialist policies" composite.
The motion on the Youth Training Scheme "noted" TUC approval of YTS, following conference's call last year to reject it, and insisted that the TUC make it i condition of continuing support that all schemes have local trade union or trades council approval. That one is in conflict with TUC policy!