After this article went to press, a total of ten unions made a joint statement opposing any kind of leadership coup in the Labour Party. The parliamentary traitors have the option of starting a Labour Party constitutional leadership contest, but they are not likely to win. A strong majority in the Labour Party supports the leader, Jeremy Corbyn. _____
Morning Star.png Unions Expected to Back Labour Leader The Morning Star, London, 30 June 2016 Jeremy Corbyn was expected to receive a crucial vote of confidence from four of the country's biggest unions last night. The general secretaries of Labour-affiliated unions Unite, Unison, GMB and the CWU held talks over their response to the coup that has been launched against Mr Corbyn by MPs jumping on the EU referendum result. The unions, representing nearly three-and-a-half million workers, were set to stand behind Mr Corbyn against calls for his resignation although accept that a new leadership contest would be necessary. The wording of a joint statement was still being hammered out as the Star went to press. TSSA general secretary Manuel Cortes added his voice yesterday to the chorus calling for MPs to respect the mandate given to Mr Corbyn by members just nine months ago. He said: "I think it's unbelievable that at a time when the Tories are in disarray over Europe that Labour MPs have decided to attack our leader. "The Labour Party is a democratic party. There is a route to challenge our leader. But instead they chose, in a very petulant, way to declare a strike against him and walk out en-masse. "It's absolutely terrible what they've done. "The role of Labour MPs is to get a Labour government. They don't do that by attacking the leader of the Labour Party." Mr Corbyn addressed a rally of young supporters organised by Momentum at Soas university in London last night. The pro-Corbyn pressure group also reported a "stunning surge" in support for the #KeepCorbyn campaign on social media, which is now reaching five million people per day. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7e12-Unions-expected-to-back-embattled- Labour-leader#.V3SY9Pl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13729 (20160630) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/005a01d1d29f%24d5bcfaa0%248136efe0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
