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Congress 2011 decisions

Issue date

12 Sep 2011

Record of voting on motions and amendments to TUC Congress 2011. 12-14 September, London.

This page last updated close of Congress business, Wednesday 14 September 2011.

1. Organising and rights at work	Grouping	Congress decision
1 UNITE amend RMT 2 GMB 3 NASUWT 4 UCU 5 NUJ amend NUJ 6 POA	COMPOSITE No. 1 Trade union rights	CARRIED
7 USDAW 8 Accord amend CWU 9 Prospect amend UCATT amend CSP	COMPOSITE No. 2 The government's deregulation agenda	CARRIED
10 BECTU amend USDAW	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
11 UCATT amend BALPA	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
12 BFAWU	STANDS	CARRIED
13 AEP amend ASLEF	STANDS accepted	CARRIED

2. Equal rights	Grouping	Congress decision
14 USDAW amend CSP	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
15 TUC Women's Conference	STANDS	CARRIED
16 TUC Black Workers' Conference	STANDS	CARRIED
17 TUC Disability Conference	STANDS	CARRIED
18 TUC LGBT Conference	STANDS	CARRIED
19 FDA	STANDS	CARRIED
20 EIS	STANDS	CARRIED
21 CWU amend UNISON amend UCU amend TSSA	COMPOSITE No. 3 Defending multiculturalism	CARRIED

3. Economic and industrial affairs	Grouping	Congress Decision
22 UNITE 23 Community 24 FBU amend UNISON amend RMT 25 TSSA amend GMB amend NUT	COMPOSITE No. 4 Alternative economic strategy	CARRIED
26 Accord	STANDS	CARRIED
27 SoR	STANDS	CARRIED
28 UNISON amend UNITE amend NASUWT amend UCATT 29 PCS 30 NUT amend FBU 31 ATL 32 FDA 33 TSSA	COMPOSITE No. 5 Pensions	CARRIED
34 Musicians' Union	STANDS	CARRIED
35 TUC Young Members' Conference	STANDS	CARRIED
36 Prospect amend Community 37 Community 38 NUM amend BACM-TEAM	COMPOSITE No. 6 Low carbon economy	CARRIED
39 RMT 40 ASLEF amend TSSA	COMPOSITE No. 7 Defending public transport	CARRIED
41 ASLEF amend UNITE amend Community	COMPOSITE No. 8 Thameslink Rolling Stock project	CARRIED
42 Nautilus International	STANDS	CARRIED
43 Nautilus International	STANDS	CARRIED
44 UNISON amend USDAW amend NASUWT amend Prospect 45 PCS 46 CWU amend FBU 47 UCU	COMPOSITE No. 9 Public services and their importance to the economy	CARRIED
48 UNISON 49 CSP amend FDA	COMPOSITE No. 10 All Together for the NHS	CARRIED
50 TUC Trades Councils' Conference	STANDS	CARRIED
51 GMB amend CWU	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
52 SCP	STANDS	CARRIED
53 SoR	STANDS	CARRIED
54 AEP	STANDS	CARRIED
55 NASUWT amend SoR 56 NUT 57 ATL amend UCU	COMPOSITE No. 11 State education, free schools, academies and privatisation	CARRIED
58 EIS	STANDS	CARRIED
59 Aspect amend UNISON	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
60 POA	STANDS	CARRIED
61 Napo amend PCS	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
62 Napo	STANDS	CARRIED
63 Equity 64 Musicians' Union 65 WGGB	COMPOSITE No. 12 Lost Arts and a decent work agenda for the creative industries	CARRIED
66 Equity	STANDS	CARRIED
67 NUJ	STANDS	CARRIED
68 WGGB amend Equity	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
69 PFA	STANDS	CARRIED

4. Global solidarity	Grouping	Congress decision
70 RMT amend GMB	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
71 UNITE amend PCS	STANDS accepted	CARRIED
72 FBU	STANDS	CARRIED
73 CSP	STANDS	CARRIED

5. Protecting people at work	Grouping	Congress decision
74 UCATT amend NUT amend Prospect 75 BECTU 76 URTU amend UNITE 77 NUM	COMPOSITE No. 13 Health and safety	CARRIED
78 SCP amend FDA	COMPOSITE No. 14 Work-related stress	CARRIED
79 BFAWU	STANDS	CARRIED

Emergency motions		Congress decision
E1	TUC response to the riots	CARRIED
E2	Pre-abortion counselling	CARRIED
E3	English Defence League	CARRIED
E4	Agency Workers	CARRIED
E5	Save Bombardier Jobs	CARRIED

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