Glass MANAGEMENT DELEGATES to the Inland Revenue •Staff Federation in Bridlington on face an unprecedented attack on their jobs. Gone are the days when taxcollecting appeared to be a job for lite.
IRSF delegates face the wholesale destruction posts in the collector's grades as a result of the infamous 'Gracey Report'.
This document proposes the closure of scores As in all unions, the struggle in the reshaping political debate. There is growing. concern decline in the union's membership, its £3 million debt and the personalised style of the present leadership.
(Secretary, SE London Medical branch ASTMS)
The bureaucracy is also trying to muzze the on the oppose the election by the merbership of the union's TL C general council the stractare of the of local collection office and their back-up teams Dave Carter (Secretary and delegate, IRSF Stockton Taxes Branch)
The union also faces the automation of PAYE coding assessing, which will be the biggest computer project ever undertaken in Britain, and the 'merging' (i.e. closure)
astms Labour debate muzzled It is likely to open with a dispute on whether to The Broad Left will hold founding con ference, in July. The main emphasis of Broad Left at this conference will be the rally for union democracy. Its supporters will be arguing against the leadership view that Labour can only win the general election if it presents itself 'moderate' party.
The NEC has slipped in an emergency motion upportin the TUC-Labour Part document Partners Rebuilding which heralds a new social contract.
The view of Broad Left supporters is that only democratically organised movement which acts on socialist policies of local offices of tax inspectors.
The lack of significant resistance to the govern ment's proposals has led the growth of a Broad Left within the which has successfully welded together most of the left in the IRSF. Its formation rocked the right-wing dominated exunsuccessfully to suspend the Broad Left leadership from the IRSF.
As a result, the left has increased its strength in will be able attract working people to a defeat the executive elections.
The unwillingness of the Tories to negotiate meaningfully on pay limits, political ireciosures • 0г freedom, meant that the executive is desperate for some success place before the membership Its strategy of 'negotiatation' is now looking the latest proposals for office arrive members' desks. of the Tories once and for all.
This year's conference will be a further test of strength between the two sides. Important motions go beyond the immediate framework of the Revenue. Motion 49 wants to investigate the possibili of merger with other civil service unions, mo tion 77 attempts to reverse last year's decision to atfiliate to CND, and motion 92 is on affiliation to the Labour Party.
Win lose, Bridlington strengthening of the lef should mark in the IRSF.
Clive Jenkins
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THE CONFERENCE of the Association of Scien- tific, Technical and Managerial Staffs meets on 7 discuss the witch hunt in the Labour Party.