The National Executive Council of the CWU yesterday (Wednesday 5
April) debated and carried the following motion:
“In the wake of recent damaging revelations regarding the
secret loans to Party funds and the associated Honours issue; the failure to
secure a Labour majority for the Education Bill; the continuing occupation
of Iraq; and the growing dissatisfaction amongst workers with Tony Blair’s
political direction, particularly his failure to repeal anti-union laws,
this NEC believes the Prime Minister should resign and allow an orderly
transfer of power to a new leader of the Labour Party as a matter of
urgency.”
The motion is undoubtedly an expression of growing
frustration in the trade union movement generally to the lack of progress on
issues affecting workers.