:00:12. > :00:20.APPLAUSE Thank you, thank you for that
:00:21. > :00:23.introduction and thank you for delaying your lunch in order that I
:00:24. > :00:30.can speak to you today. Angry for the that. To be here in
:00:31. > :00:36.Aviemore is something that is very special to me. Because the ST UC has
:00:37. > :00:41.a wonderful tradition of fighting for the working people of Scotland
:00:42. > :00:45.and influencing public debate on behalf of working people. It has
:00:46. > :00:49.been at the forefront of social progress in Scotland. It is the
:00:50. > :00:53.collectivism of the trade union movement through working people
:00:54. > :00:58.fighting alongside each other. It has always been an noise will be the
:00:59. > :01:03.driver of great progressive change in Scotland and in the rest of the
:01:04. > :01:09.UK and across the world. No more so is the case of the inspiring young
:01:10. > :01:14.activists involved in the better than zero campaign, they are vibrant
:01:15. > :01:19.and engaging in the action which is a shining example of modern trade
:01:20. > :01:22.unionism, carrying on the historic fight in the system still weighed
:01:23. > :01:28.against working people. But that site is still one we have
:01:29. > :01:34.collectively committed to. We continue to do so because friends,
:01:35. > :01:38.it works! We will not let anyone tell us otherwise. It is trade
:01:39. > :01:42.unions that has driven up wages and living standards, health and safety
:01:43. > :01:46.the workplace and challenge prejudice and discrimination, as you
:01:47. > :01:51.were just doing in emotion that you just carried. It is the unions that
:01:52. > :01:56.have worked with ourselves and the Labour Party to transform our
:01:57. > :02:01.society. To offer the opportunities to our people that so many of our
:02:02. > :02:09.forefathers and especially for mothers, unfortunately did not
:02:10. > :02:13.enjoy. They are our heroes, it was our predecessors who suffered
:02:14. > :02:18.exploitation in the workplace and wider society. It was they who were
:02:19. > :02:23.not prepared to stand idly by, who instead chose to fight back and win
:02:24. > :02:27.many of the games that we enjoy today.
:02:28. > :02:32.# Many of the games that we enjoy today. Our health service, Social
:02:33. > :02:36.Security, our education system and so much more where one on the
:02:37. > :02:41.shoulders of these giants in the labour and trade union movement. Let
:02:42. > :02:43.none of us ever forget from whence we came! The better we know where
:02:44. > :02:53.we're going to! APPLAUSE
:02:54. > :02:57.Friends, that is why I could not be at a better or more appropriate
:02:58. > :03:02.place to start general election campaign in Scotland. We are
:03:03. > :03:08.standing for the many, not the few. It is through our collective power,
:03:09. > :03:13.in a trade union, that we ensured the many, standing together, have a
:03:14. > :03:20.power to stand up to the rich and the powerful few. The Labour Party
:03:21. > :03:23.will always cherish sustain and the Pat our relationship with the train
:03:24. > :03:29.union movement and the working people but all of you in this whole
:03:30. > :03:33.represent. You are DNA, our family and we will never, ever apologise
:03:34. > :03:41.for the closeness of our relationship with you.
:03:42. > :03:48.APPLAUSE Friends, just like here hardly I'm
:03:49. > :03:53.proud to be a trade unionist I carry my card with me wherever I go, I've
:03:54. > :03:59.been in trade unions all my life and I would buy a trade unionist because
:04:00. > :04:02.that is what I believe in! APPLAUSE
:04:03. > :04:06.That is why one of the very first things we will do when forming our
:04:07. > :04:09.Labour government will be to repeal the Tory trade union act.
:04:10. > :04:20.CHEERING APPLAUSE
:04:21. > :04:28.Giving working people the rights to collectively organise and make their
:04:29. > :04:34.lives better, safer, and more content.
:04:35. > :04:39.With the timing of the election is unexpected, the choice is clear and
:04:40. > :04:44.the state is a very, very high. But let no one be in any doubt that we
:04:45. > :04:47.are in this election to win it and we will fight for every seat in
:04:48. > :04:55.every corner of these Allens! APPLAUSE
:04:56. > :04:59.-- of these islands. I said the other day, that the dividing lines
:05:00. > :05:04.in these elections could not be clever from the outset. It is the
:05:05. > :05:08.Conservative Party, the party of privilege and the richest burst of
:05:09. > :05:13.the Labour Party, the party that is standing up to working people bash
:05:14. > :05:19.macro for working people. To improve the lives of all. -- that is
:05:20. > :05:23.standing up to improve the lives of working people. I implore people in
:05:24. > :05:29.Scotland to fight for the party of progress and not the vicious Tory
:05:30. > :05:34.party who are alongside the previous Coalition parties, the Lib Dems,
:05:35. > :05:37.unleashed an unprecedented attack on the working people in this country.
:05:38. > :05:44.APPLAUSE The choice facing this country this
:05:45. > :05:49.election is clear, it is the people versus the powerful. Labour will
:05:50. > :05:55.challenge the root system that is holding our country back, in this
:05:56. > :06:00.election Labour will offer hope to the nurse, the teacher, the small
:06:01. > :06:05.trader, the carer, the builder, the office worker, the bus driver, the
:06:06. > :06:12.factory worker, the farm worker, and the factory worker in any situation.
:06:13. > :06:17.We will provide the change and transformative policy programme that
:06:18. > :06:22.puts power and opportunity in people's hands. We will fight this
:06:23. > :06:27.election offering a positive vision for our country, we will present to
:06:28. > :06:32.the British people and economic and political alternative. We will
:06:33. > :06:39.promise to make our country work for the many, not for the few. We will
:06:40. > :06:42.make jobs better and more secure, with a real living wage and stronger
:06:43. > :06:51.rights at work. APPLAUSE
:06:52. > :06:55.We will end the public sector pay cap that this are very committed
:06:56. > :07:01.public-sector servants every day of the week.
:07:02. > :07:05.APPLAUSE We will end the need for food banks
:07:06. > :07:12.in Britain. APPLAUSE
:07:13. > :07:17.We will upgrade our economy to create wealth for our people in the
:07:18. > :07:20.21st-century through investment in our infrastructure, helping small
:07:21. > :07:28.businesses, delivering high skilled jobs and ending poverty pay will
:07:29. > :07:33.stop we will never put tax giveaways to the corporations and the wealth
:07:34. > :07:39.were used above are vital public services like social care and the
:07:40. > :07:41.National Health Service. Those engines of opportunity, stalls and
:07:42. > :07:47.colleges, we will give them the funding we need the Scottish people
:07:48. > :07:52.are facing a crucial choice in the selection. The Tories are trying to
:07:53. > :07:58.use Brexit to temperate in into a low wage tax haven, born in the
:07:59. > :08:03.interest of the powerful, Labour will negotiate a Brexit that will
:08:04. > :08:07.build on the gains one workers, consumers and the environment in the
:08:08. > :08:09.European Union, will put jobs, living standards and human rights
:08:10. > :08:19.first. APPLAUSE
:08:20. > :08:24.Friends, this is a general election, not a referendum, and only labour
:08:25. > :08:28.can form a government and after an alternative that will transform the
:08:29. > :08:32.lives of people in Scotland. The truth is that the Tories and the SNP
:08:33. > :08:35.are obsessed with the power struggles against Brussels and
:08:36. > :08:41.Westminster when the energy should be used to change and transform our
:08:42. > :08:46.economy, to ensure that no one and no community is left behind.
:08:47. > :08:55.APPLAUSE The Tories, while the Tories,
:08:56. > :08:59.LAUGHTER They will always seek to undermine, diluted, or simply
:09:00. > :09:05.eliminate all the games that we won. That is who they are and that is
:09:06. > :09:11.what they do. They act for the powerful and the powerful back them.
:09:12. > :09:16.That is what we are up against, that is what our predecessors were up
:09:17. > :09:20.against, it never stopped them and it won't stop was!
:09:21. > :09:26.APPLAUSE -- and it will not stop was! Much of
:09:27. > :09:30.the media and their friends in the establishment saying that this
:09:31. > :09:33.election is a foregone conclusion. They think there are rules in
:09:34. > :09:40.politics which if you do not follow them you do not win. You start by
:09:41. > :09:46.doffing your cap to the powerful people, excepting the parameters so
:09:47. > :09:51.nothing can really change. Comrades, it is when you start accepting the
:09:52. > :09:56.parameters laid down by others, you cannot really win, you have to be
:09:57. > :10:01.challenged! Our movement knows it. It is any better is standing
:10:02. > :10:06.together, as the people, for the many, not the powerful that we
:10:07. > :10:11.really win. Only Labour has the policies that will challenge these
:10:12. > :10:16.powerful interests and transform the lives of working people. Letters
:10:17. > :10:21.remember that the only real Progressive Alliance is that Labour
:10:22. > :10:25.and trade union movement working together as it has always been and
:10:26. > :10:32.as far as I'm concerned always will be, that is why Labour is
:10:33. > :10:39.campaigning to win in every seat across the whole country. The deal
:10:40. > :10:45.we will do with the electorate is to be the government for the many and
:10:46. > :10:50.not the few. The truth is, politics and policies of labour are needed
:10:51. > :10:57.now more than ever as our country becomes more and more unfair, more
:10:58. > :11:03.unjust and more unequal. In Scotland, 260,000 children, 40,000
:11:04. > :11:09.more than a year ago, are living in poverty. Health inequality,
:11:10. > :11:13.stubbornly exists. Take a bus ride across any major city in Scotland or
:11:14. > :11:20.indeed any other part of Britain and you will travel between areas where
:11:21. > :11:26.there is a life expectancy ten or 12 years longer than the poorest areas
:11:27. > :11:29.of the inner cities. Educational attainment is our differing and
:11:30. > :11:33.worsening and the numbers of people working but still considered to be
:11:34. > :11:39.living in poverty are at the worst point since the pollution. That is
:11:40. > :11:44.surely where the focus of all politicians should be. So, we will
:11:45. > :11:48.redistribute wealth in our society to ensure that people are paid at
:11:49. > :11:48.least a real living wage of ?10 an hour.
:11:49. > :12:00.APPLAUSE Transforming the lives of 500,000
:12:01. > :12:10.people in Scotland earning less than the living wage, wiping out the
:12:11. > :12:16.concept of working poor. And we will protect pensioners' incomes by
:12:17. > :12:22.legislating to keep the triple lock on state pensions, protecting over 1
:12:23. > :12:28.million Scottish pensioners. Guaranteeing them a basic income
:12:29. > :12:33.necessary to live a dignified life in retirement. Only Labour will
:12:34. > :12:40.protect pensions. We will make sure public spending will be used to
:12:41. > :12:44.force a change for good in working environments, conditions, equal
:12:45. > :12:49.opportunities and fair pay, using the power of public procurement in
:12:50. > :12:52.local and central government to force better working conditions in
:12:53. > :12:55.all those companies that are benefiting from public service
:12:56. > :13:04.contracts. I think it is a power we should use. APPLAUSE So we will
:13:05. > :13:11.ensure that no company wins a public contract if they avoid or evade
:13:12. > :13:23.taxes. Do not pay the local suppliers on time or refuse to
:13:24. > :13:27.recognise trade unions. APPLAUSE. This will benefit Scottish workers
:13:28. > :13:31.and the small businesses across the country currently contracted by the
:13:32. > :13:37.UK Government to the tune of billions of pounds. We will create a
:13:38. > :13:41.Scottish National bank under Scottish control and backed by the
:13:42. > :13:46.National investment bank with ?20 billion of lending power to deliver
:13:47. > :13:51.funds to local projects and small businesses, creating work and
:13:52. > :14:01.stimulating the economy. We will aggressively take on the tax
:14:02. > :14:07.avoidance and if, starting with making corporations publish the
:14:08. > :14:22.entirety of their tax returns. APPLAUSE. We will ban zero hours
:14:23. > :14:29.contracts, giving new protections. APPLAUSE. Giving new protections to
:14:30. > :14:34.60,000 workers, guaranteed with no powers at the moment. How can people
:14:35. > :14:38.possibly plan their lives, pay the rent, if they have no security of
:14:39. > :14:44.income? Is it right that so many people wake up in the morning and
:14:45. > :14:49.the first thing they do is reach for the phone to check if any texts of
:14:50. > :14:53.cumin, not the nice texts we received from friends and family or
:14:54. > :14:58.people wishing us well and so on, but to find out if they have got any
:14:59. > :15:03.work that day or not? It is not a right of the way of treating people.
:15:04. > :15:15.We will end zero hours contracts, once and for all. APPLAUSE When
:15:16. > :15:21.injustices are historic and occurred some while ago, it does not diminish
:15:22. > :15:27.in the reality of that injustice all the hurt that was suffered, so we
:15:28. > :15:39.will set up enquiries into blacklisting. APPLAUSE And we will
:15:40. > :15:43.urge the Scottish Government to set up an inquiry into the actions of
:15:44. > :15:45.the police during the miners' strike in Scotland.
:15:46. > :15:59.APPLAUSE We will give all workers equal rights from day one to stop
:16:00. > :16:03.some workers being exploited and others being undercut. You know that
:16:04. > :16:11.how that system works as well as I do. And we will introduce a right to
:16:12. > :16:17.own, giving workers first refusal when the company faces a change of
:16:18. > :16:21.ownership or closer. I think those are important rights so the
:16:22. > :16:25.contribution, skills and commitment of workers to the companies will be
:16:26. > :16:31.recognised when there is a crisis in that company. Too often, it is the
:16:32. > :16:37.skills that are not recognised in the wisdom that is lost as the doors
:16:38. > :16:41.are closed, once and for all. We want an opportunity for workers to
:16:42. > :16:46.take over those companies as a point of first refusal. We will probably
:16:47. > :16:58.fund the Health and Safety Executive which has been shamefully cut back
:16:59. > :17:04.under this government. And we will work with trade unions and industry
:17:05. > :17:14.to reintroduce sectoral collective bargaining across the whole of the
:17:15. > :17:18.country. APPLAUSE. And we will also introduce four new public holidays,
:17:19. > :17:23.giving people the time to lead better and more fulfilling lives,
:17:24. > :17:29.helping productivity at the same time, and we will ask for the
:17:30. > :17:32.support of the governments of Wells, Scotland and Northern Ireland said
:17:33. > :17:39.the same four holidays can be enjoyed across the whole of the
:17:40. > :17:47.United Kingdom. APPLAUSE. Our aim is a country where everyone can, has
:17:48. > :17:53.the dignity of work, and where everyone has a guarantee of dignity
:17:54. > :17:56.and work. These are the types of transformative policies that can
:17:57. > :18:02.change people's lives for the better. Just like it has always
:18:03. > :18:06.been, only Labour will deliver for working people, small businesses and
:18:07. > :18:10.our most vulnerable people. None of the rest would even think of these
:18:11. > :18:16.types of policies, let alone achieve them. It is only Labour that will
:18:17. > :18:22.focus on the kind of country we need after Brexit. In the coming weeks,
:18:23. > :18:24.in a designed to unlock in a designed to unlock
:18:25. > :18:29.opportunities for every single person in this country. We will
:18:30. > :18:35.focus on giving people real control over their own lives and make sure
:18:36. > :18:40.that everybody reads a just reward for the work they do. We will no
:18:41. > :18:47.longer allowed those at the top to leech off those who bust the guts of
:18:48. > :18:53.zero hours contracts and are forced to make sacrifices to pay the
:18:54. > :18:59.mortgage or rent. Instead of the country's wealth being hidden in tax
:19:00. > :19:02.havens, we will put in the hands of the people of Britain because the
:19:03. > :19:13.place! APPLAUSE. In this election, place! APPLAUSE. In this election,
:19:14. > :19:20.Labour will lead the movement to make that change. We will build a
:19:21. > :19:26.new economy worthy of the 21st-century and build a country for
:19:27. > :19:39.the many, not the few. Thank you very much indeed. APPLAUSE.