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From a trades councils perspective, TOM MORRISON gives the lowdown on STUC Congress, where debates on Palestine solidarity and cuts to local council funding were hot topics in the debating hall
CATCHWORD: STUC general secretary Roz Foyer ahead of Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (below) speaking at the Congress at Caird Hall in Dundee last week
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THE Star’s coverage of last week’s successful Scottish Trades Union Congress, ably chaired by Comandante Mike Arnott of Dundee TUC, makes the task of an assessment, without repeating what readers have already read, rather challenging.
So I’d like to focus on the view from a trades council, including some of what we at Clydebank TUC (CTUC) were involved in.
Among the political visitors to Congress were Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar, whose address was almost Fidel Castro-like in length if not in content. In usual, Anas-style, he said what he thought his audience wanted to hear.
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