SSP WINS GROWING SUPPORT FROM TRADE UNIONISTS

Scottish Socialist Convenor Tommy Sheridan is today visiting the Scottish Trade Unions Congress conference in Inverness. He is holding a news conference and later speaking at a fringe rally alongside Bob Crow, General Secretary of the Railworkers’ RMT Union and Mark Serwotka, leader of the civil servants union, the PCS.

The SSP has had pledges of support from many trade unionists at the STUC, including firefighters from the Fire Brigades Union who have deserted Labour and a number of whom are standing for the SSP as candidates for both Parliament and council elections.

Tommy Sheridan said,

“I am heartened by the growing support from trade unionists for the SSP. Many of them have decided that the Labour Party no longer represents trade unionists and that the SSP’s policies of a minimum wage of £7.32 an hour, a 35-hour working week, an end to PFI and free school meals is much more in line with trade union policies than New Labour.”
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