Received from: Unite
Congress notes that for decades working-class communities have had to pay the price for of crisis after crisis not of their making. This failure to deliver on real change for workers and communities has been key in the rise of the far right.
Congress believes that a critical political window now exists for the newly established Labour leadership to deliver an uncompromised, pro-worker agenda.
Congress calls on the General Council to campaign for an immediate legislative and economic strategy that delivers:
i. an ambitious industrial strategy to deliver good well-paid jobs and reindustrialise Britain.
ii. a reversal of public sector austerity by paying for more day-to-day spending with a wealth tax.
iii. an end to the ‘rob Peter to pay Paul’ approach, pitting worker against worker, and a loosening of fiscal rules to allow more direct investment in jobs and growth.
iv. the unfreezing of unfairly frozen tax thresholds that are pulling workers and pensioners into the wrong tax bands.
v. public ownership of our energy and water infrastructure, to cut bills and stop profiteering.
vi. new ‘buy British’ procurement rules to support UK jobs and deepen national security
vii. net zero through a real workers’ transition, creating commensurate well-paid jobs and not offshoring our carbon responsibilities or abandoning workers.
Unite