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One of the Labour 's biggest trade union donors has criticised Ed Miliband 's backing for a public sector pay freeze and called for an overhaul of the party's policymakingprocedures. The GMB union, which gives Labour 1.4m a year in affiliation fees,urged the party to reinstate its national conference as the mainpolicy body and ditch its national policy forums. Paul Kenny, the GMB's national secretary, told the union's annualcongress in Brighton that he was serious about seeking a reversalon policies such as the backing for a freeze in public sector pay. "We either get in the lift on the ground floor or we are notgetting in the lift at all. People need to understand that we arevery serious about this," he said. Kenny said the GMB would press Labour to sever ties with some ofits New Labour-related groups, such as Progress . He warned that the public would not vote for a "Tory-liteapproach from a Labour government". However, Kenny ruled out a suspension of all Labour party funding,despite calls from the podium for a donation freeze. One motioncalled for a suspension until the shadow cabinet "fully commits towhere possible righting the wrong and repairing the damage done byTory-Lib Dem government". The GMB's main executive body gave the motion qualified backing,saying a funding freeze was "too wide an action" and would hamperthe union's ability to negotiate changes with Labour. Another motion, which was not heard because of union rules, calledfor the GMB to de-affiliate from Labour. Raised by the Leeds civicbranch, it said: "We cannot continue to waste money on them, we aresimply funding the bullets they are using to shoot us with." Ed Balls , the shadow chancellor, will address the congress on Mondayafternoon and will take questions from the floor in what is likelyto be an impassioned session. Balls's support for a public sector pay freeze, expressed in a Guardian interview this year, sparked criticism from union leaders including thegeneral secretary of Unite, Labour's biggest donor. Balls said that he backed George Osborne's imposition of publicsector pay restraint until the end of parliament. Pay increases in2013/14 and 2014/15 will be capped at 1%, after a freeze in thepreceding two years. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Car GPS Trackers , Fleet Management Tracking Software Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Personal GPS Trackers.
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