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ATU Network is a caucus group within the Amicus trade union which seeks to attract members and employees of Amicus who support the Labour Party and who are sympathetic to Blairism. It announced its formation in January 2005. The group's name probably derives from ''Amicus the union'', the union's campaigning slogan. The founders of ATU Network, who signed the group's founding statement (), are: * Les Bayliss, Assistant General Secretary of Amicus * Cath Speight, a full-time officer who is Regional Secretary for Amicus's Wales Region and a member of the Labour Party's National Executive Committee * Kevin Coyne, a full-time national officer who was then the Regional Secretary of the North West Region ATU Network competed with the larger and more established Unity Gazette grouping. That group pursues broad left aims and objectives. ==Activities== ATU Network is believed to have campaigned against the rule change that introduced the requirement to elect new Full Time Officers. That rule change was approved at the June 2005 Amicus Policy and Rules Conference, after a campaign by the Unity Gazette. However, ATU's greatest success to date, where it emerged as a serious opponent to the Gazette, was at the North West Regional Branch Conference, held on 2006-01-21. At that conference, almost all the candidates on the ATU slate were elected. North West England was the main power-base of MSF for Labour, but the vast majority of the ATU's recommended candidates were relatively young and unknown, with many being drawn from the former UNIFI finance union, and the older activists from the MSF days were almost all absent from the slate. Apart from indicating that ATU have had some success within the finance sector, it could suggest that ATU want to be seen to be making a clean start, and to avoid being associated with the political machinations of the MSF era. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ATU Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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