On Wednesday 11th March 2009 10.30 am a new political initiative will be launched in the Jubilee Room at the House of Commons. The Peoples Charter for Change is a major campaign whose growing number of prominent supporters include the leaders of 11 trade unions including Tony Woodley (Joint General Secretary, Unite).
At the launch meeting of the United Left, John McDonnell MP spoke about the contents of the Charter. The meeting agreed, in principle, to support it.
The aim of the Charter is to create a movement with over one million people in Britain signing up to 6 key principles:
- A fairer economy for a fairer Britain
- More and better jobs
- Decent homes for all
- Save and improve public services
- For a fair and just Britain
- For a future without war
Other key elements of the People's Charter include a commitment to justice and fairness, a demand to the end of the wars that have seen billions of pounds wasted and hundreds of thousands of lives lost. The People's Charter is also clear that public sector services should remain in the public sector and that public services that have in the past been hived off to the highest bidder should be brought back into public ownership.
The full Charter, and an online form to add the support of individual's and organisations, can be found at http://www.thepeoplescharter.com/
Meetings are being organised in many areas to build support for the Charter. Details can be found on the Charter's website. United Left supporters will be working to help achieve the target of a million signatures and to ensure its policies are taken up by the union.
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