Finance Coordinator
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How do you think the party should improve its relationship with trade unions and the labour movement?
A solid policy platform is necessary, but not sufficient. We need to ensure that elected and other high-profile Greens are visibly enacting and promoting our pro-worker policies and that members are actively engaging in solidarity actions with unions and other worker-led organisation, including the worker co-op movement and the employee ownership sector. We should aim to work with all unions, but given our starting point and limited resources, it seems obvious that we should focus on those unions that are not affiliated to Labour.
As our membership grows we should continue to promote GPTU to members so that we increase our grassroots connection with branches in addition to building existing links between elected Greens and union officials.
I am also keen that the Party actively engages with the emerging Union Co-op movement - common ownership is a much better fit with Green values that centralised state control of nationalised industries.
How do you think your role could help Greens to become more active in and engaged with the labour movement?
The Finance Co-ordinator chairs AFCom (the admin and finance sub-committee of the Executive) and this provides an opportunity to ensure that our own staff union is engaged fully in the development of internal policies and employment practices. We need to, and to be seen to, ensure that we are living up to our own expectations of other employers.