This resolution, submitted by LU Fleet and TfL no.1 branches, was passed at the April meeting of the Regional Council, with 10 votes in favour, none against and 3 abstentions.

The economic crisis threatens the jobs and living standards of billions of people across the world. It is essential that the trade union and labour movement fights to prevent the bosses and governments making workers pay for their crisis.

To read reports on swine flu, how it affects you and what your union is doing to demand that your employer protect your safety, click here.

The World Health Organisation, backed by Western leaders, argues that pandemics can be contained by the rapid responses of medical bureaucracies. The idea is that the strain is identified and then dealt with by local populations getting enough anti-viral drugs.

Rather than working together to produce a vaccination for each new flu strain, which is unprofitable for the pharmaceutical companies because many new flu strains don’t reach pandemic level, governments tend to rely on generic anti-virals such as Tamiflu.

ATTENDANCE

• Bakerloo branch - Malcolm Taylor
• Camden no.3 branch - Pat O'Brien, Clara Osagiede, Mick Crossey, John Reid
• Central Line West branch - Vic Parmar, Jon Abdullah, Vaughan Thomas (meeting chair), Stefan Melnyk
• DLR branch -
• East Ham branch - Chris Baillie, Andy Izard