POEU suspensions lifted ›pensions
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LEry wingers at the POEU conference celebrate an important victory over the union's right wing leadership this week, when 2-year disciplinary suspensions against six branch officials were lifted.
The branch officers -from Kidderminster, the Black Country and Potteries branches - had distributed ballot papers on the Labour Party deputy leadership at branch meetings rather than by post.
The suspensions had been in force for only six months when a Broad Left-backed composite motion demanding the members' immediate reinstatement was carried against the vehement opposition of General Secretary Bryan Stanley.
The conference voted to affiliate to CND.
But the right wing too had some successes. Union President John ScottGarner was able to get away with a tacit threat to disaffiliate from the Labour Party if it moved to the left, and a pay package was endorsed which actually conceded a reduction in wages for new starters.