Cialist Challenge 14 January 1983 page 2 unions and bankrupt the Labour Party.
Tebbit proposes
the union national executives are elected by a secret postal ballot. Once this done the system could then be introduced to cover all union If the trade unions refused to implement Tebbit's proposal then the given power to freeze union runds, CYCl -remove union leaders from office.
These DrO• posals come packaged the heading:
Democracy in the Trade Unions' ne tory idea o democracy is to remove elected leaders and take the union's funds away on the instructions of judges WHO have never been elected by anyone, and are to the ruling class and its state.
The use ballots rather than branch votes extend democracy. At the branch 11C DE debate and argue the policies of the different Catedes. and can make their minds sion. They can aquaint themselves the track record of the candidates.
This democratic procontrasts ballot method. zine person, one vote, method micans nat ine overweim ing majority of the voters receive the greatest part of their information from the media. While this doubt is good news for Tebbit - after all there is one national LIOL paper that can be relled on to support any candidates other than "moderates' - it's certainfile democracy. The more the Tory media influences elections, the less can the interests of the ordinary members be served In opposing Tebbit, militants inside the unions however must point out that thev too are in tavour of extending trade union also democracy, but from the angle of serving the terests of the rank and file. Therefore they avour of the periodic elec the ficials and of all the nadistrict and area committees.
the officials and didates for oftice should be at all times accountable ject to recall at any time a majority of the members cecees that they are no longer carrying out task they were elected for.
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THE LATEST proposals from Norman Tebbit are a calculated attempt to shackle the trade