BEYOND THE WINDFALL TAX
As well as organising more protests and strikes to push up wages, the labour movement needs to fight for radically different policies. In line with TUC Congress and Labour conference decisions, our movement should campaign for at least:
• Reversing the £20 UC cut; above-inflation benefit increases
• A significant real-terms rise for public sector workers
• A minimum wage of £15 for all
• Sick pay at least at minimum wage level for all
• Rent controls
• A mass insulation program
• Scrapping all anti-union laws, to help drive up wages, conditions and rights.
Furthermore we should campaign for:
• Heavy taxation of the rich – including through income tax, corporation tax and an ongoing wealth tax – to diminish their power, reduce inequality and unlock resources
• Public ownership of energy production, distribution and supply, to decarbonise and cut bills.
Winning action to raise living standards will increase the possibility of winning wider demands including building council housing, restoring the NHS and local government, creating a public care system, and more…
We will campaign for these demands, and agitate for the whole labour movement to fight for them, writing publicly to the Labour Party [and to our union nationally].
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