Received from: Unison
A new prime minister is an opportunity to reboot what a Labour government looks like and who it stands for.
Congress notes that our communities still bear the scars of fourteen years of Tory austerity, and that many workers feel like our public services need a bailout.
The Labour government has delivered changes that will improve lives – including the Employment Rights Act, the Renters’ Rights Act, scrapping the two-child limit and increases to the minimum wage.
But Congress notes that Britain still suffers from crumbling public services, stagnating wages and living standards, poor growth and productivity, growing youth unemployment, and widening inequality.
Congress believes we cannot fix a crisis of this magnitude with incrementalism. Congress calls on the new prime minister to be bolder and more radical by:
i. tackling inequality by taxing wealth and making corporations pay their fair share
ii. increasing wages
iii. providing an emergency cash injection and sustained investment for public services
iv. bringing outsourced services back in-house
v. ending private equity’s grip on public services
vi. bringing key utilities back into public ownership.
Congress calls on the General Council to:
a. press the new PM and cabinet to be bold in implementing this approach
b. commission rigorous research into progressive taxes on wealth and large multinational corporations ahead of the next budget
c. make improving living standards for low-paid workers a priority campaign
d. work with unions, charities and campaigners to organise a national day of action, calling for wealth taxes and public service investment.
UNISON
AMENDMENT
Insert in b. “including property, and companies” after “wealth”. Add after “budget”: “. The research should examine whether taxes on income from work, wealth, company profits, and consumer spending are fairly balanced, and whether they generate sufficient revenue for sustained investment in all public services to protect the social contract.”
Educational Institute of Scotland
AMENDMENT
Add new paragraph after paragraph 4: “This fraying social and economic fabric has been exacerbated by cuts and outsourcing at the BBC, as well as the deterioration of public arts provision by local and national government.”
Equity
AMENDMENT
Paragraph 3, second line before ‘scrapping’ insert ‘the Passenger Railway Services Act,’
Point v. after services add ‘and the assets and infrastructure needed for these services’
ASLEF