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THE left notched up a second victory at the Scottish Labour conference yesterday.
After conference rejected Trident renewal, members voted overwhelmingly to oppose the TTIP international trade agreement in its entirety.
A motion moved by Unite calling for “outright opposition to TTIP” won a massive 91 per cent of the vote across constituency parties and trade union sections, with union affiliates voting by a rock-solid 100 per cent to support the motion.
Jackson Cullinane from Unite moved the motion, warning that public services including the NHS would be “opened up to further privatisation” and any future Labour government wishing to take assets into public ownership would “face being sued by multinational companies.”
He called on conference to support the motion and take the side of “people power” not “corporate power.”
Mr Cullinane reminded conference that MEPs were not at the negotiating table, that they had been “excluded from negotiations” and so claims by some delegates that concessions on TTIP could be won were misleading.
