I would imagine that the priority for the TU movement in the UK should be to link in with the existing economic crisis and offer an alternative to working people who did not, for different reasons, in the past considered it relevant to join a union. The current 'credit crunch' which looks like subsiding slightly is only been eased off because of the pending election in May and once that is out of the way all hell will break lose. Any economist or accountant would tell you that the measures that have been taken so far to reduce the impact of the crisis will, in themselves, produce a more severe problem in the near future. So we should be developing tactics to fight back even stricter controls and step up our efforts to explain this to working people and increase recruitment of members. Increase and retain membership is therefore what the real priority should be. And it won't matter if we get a Labour or Tory government in. Labour will delay the crisis by a year or two and the dreadful Tories will go for immediate cuts. Our priority is to accelerate the recruitment process as of yesterday!
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