SYN's Campaign

Hello all,
At the Socalist Youth Conference in January 2007 SYN passed a motion that amongst other things instructed SYN to:

1) To campaign for a universal living wage of at least £8/hour.

2) To work within the youth structures of our trade unions to force our unions to take seriously the task of organising currently unorganised sectors where many young workers are employed.

3) To advocate an organising and campaigning strategy based on the spirit of the "Supersize My
Pay" campaign from New Zealand .

4) To lobby local Labour Groups to include a pledge to pay all employees (including sub-contracted workers) a living wage in their manifestos for the upcoming local elections.

The SYN Exec met and discussed putting into action a campaign for a real living wage as we all decided at our Conference.
The name we've settled on is COFUP! - which stands for COalition Fighting Unfair Pay.

The focus of the campaign will be
a) to campaign for Labour councils to have a living wage as part of their workerprocurement agreements; and
b) to make a Living Wage official Labour Party policy by having it passed at Conference.

Welcome to our New Blog and hope to see you at the COF UP Launch!

COFUP is being launched by the Socialist Youth Network, the youth wing of the Labour Representation Committee. We're a coalition of young activists fighting for socialism in the Labour party.For information about SYN activities, email either Marsha or Owen at marshajanethompson@yahoo.co.uk or o.p.jones@gmail.com