TUC ignores URTU drivers' meeting
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MI Plans by the United Road Transport Union to publicise a meeting to promote a single truck drivers' union have been scuppered by the TUC.
In a move that the union says is tantamount to censorship, the TUC has refused to advertise the meeting in its guide to the Congress.
The TUC says the action was taken because the union resigned from the organisation earlier in the year.
URTU wanted to publish a notice of its 16 September fringe meeting at the Blackpool gathering, where its generalsecretary David Higginbottom plans to launch his campaign for a single union.
He says anyone opposed to
the proposal is welcome to the meeting and the rejection of the advert is a "deliberate act of censorship".
However, the TUC denies this charge, saying it is "Mappropriate" to accept an advert from a union "which resigned from the TUC rather than accept the decision of the TUC's disputes committee".
URTU resigned from the TUC in January , two weeks before it faced expulsion for failing to encourage 300 drivers at Ford's Dagenham plant to return to their former union, the Transport and General Workers' Union.
The Transport and General Workers Union says URTU's call for one union is "irrelevant"