The nuclear threat to trade unionism

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Williams an- be disclosed. nounced at a 400-strong rally after the trial that the campaign Atomic for a Welsh TV channel would perspective. A TRADE union conference on jobs, nuclear power was held on November in Oxford. JOHN BORAN reports.

The conference, organised by Socialist Environmental Resources Association, discussed nuclear health and safety, the effect of nuclear power on Same raue UTOE rights, and the alternative to nucicar power. over too trade unionists were there, from all incma or anons The attack on trade union rights comes from the operation of the Official Secrets Act. For example, a worker sacked from a nuclear site can be refused a tribunal hearing on the grounds that secret information would The claim by bodies like the Energy Authority creates jobs was also put in Nuclear power creates fewer mostly a very highly skilled technical elite, than the alternatives: power, demanding the skills of th shipbuilding industry; wind powel, makca to tre acrospac industry; and solar heating and bing and building industry Dalton Australian trade unionist talked about the internationa struggle against nuclear power. Many trade unions around the world have been involved in the campaign, including the CFDT in France, the Irish TGWU, and the Northern Territory Trade & Labour Council in Australia.

In Britain the TUC supports nuclear power, as do all trade unions with the exception of the building workers UCATI and the Yorkshire miners. The fight for a rea debate in the labou movement about the consequences of nuclear power is only just beginning.

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