Build a united, democratic shop stewards network
The Scottish Socialist Party welcomes the formation of the National
Shop Stewards Network, an initiative from the RMT at UK level in 2006,
which could make a very positive contribution to workers' struggles.
As the one party which since our formation in 1998 has consistently taken
the side of the working class and their unions against the employers
and their savage attacks, the SSP is committed to uniting with fellow-trade
unionists in the battles for workplace rights, decent jobs, wages and
conditions, and the broader struggle against cuts, privatisation and
capitalist exploitation.
Unions such as PCS and RMT, led by fighting socialists, have grown in
membership through determined struggle, producing as a result many new
stewards/reps, who in turn are being trained by the union.
The simple lesson of these experiences – and others such as the many
localised council workers’ strikes - is that militant action in defence
of workers' conditions boosts morale and confidence, whereas the 'service
union' model of selling cheaper insurance schemes, holidays, credit cards,
etc is a recipe for the demobilisation of members, the loss of collective
consciousness, and the decline of union strength in the face of belligerent
employers and the antiunion New Labour government.
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Nursery Nurses take strike action
SSP trade unionists
by Richie Venton, SSP Trade Union Organiser
"Whose side are you on? That’s the point blank question posed
to all political parties every time workers are forced to strike, picket
or demonstrate in defence of their pay, jobs, pensions and workplace
rights.
Whilst others squirm in opportunist twists and turns, the Scottish Socialist
Party is unreservedly on the side of working people against exploitation
by their employers.
For the SSP, solidarity is not reserved for eloquent speeches on May
Day.We have a track record of physical, financial, moral and political
solidarity - on the picket lines, in our workplaces, on the streets,
in the media, in the parliament."
