Skills will be needed if the working class is to gain and maintain control of production. Trade Unions must play a central role in planning, implementing and monitoring training. There must be agreed procedures for selection and testing. Trade Unions must fight to end the effects of past class, race and sex discrimination in training. Employers and the State have a duty to train, both have a role to play in financing such training.
All workers have a right to paid education and training leave.
Workers facing retrenchment or experiencing unemployment have a right to re-train as a stepping stone to secure employment. Education and training should continue throughout a worker's life to ensure that his or her skills keep pace with technological change, are needed by society and enable the person to develop his or her abilities. Formal education must be free and compulsory. There must be clear links between the formal schooling system, the adult education system, the industrial training system and other education and training systems eg. Training must be linked to grading, and hence to pay.