The Trade Union Congress is the voice of Britain at work, with 58 affiliated unions representing nearly seven million working people from all walks of life.

During its 140th Congress which took place from the 8th - 11th September 2008 at the Brighton Centre, was taken a resolution of Solidarity with the Cuban Five:

Resolution 76 Miami Five

Congress deplores the continued imprisonment of the Miami Five in the USA and notes the 2008 Amnesty International Report's condemnation of the appeal process and the denial of the human right of visitation rights to the families of the Miami Five.

The Miami Five are Cuban men who are in a US prison, serving four life sentences and 75 years collectively, after being wrongly convicted in a US federal court in Miami on 8 June 2001. The Five were involved in monitoring the actions of Miami-based terrorist groups, in order to prevent terrorist attacks on their country of Cuba and never directed action at the US government. For 40 years, anti-Cuba terrorist organisations based in Miami have engaged in terrorist activities against Cuba, resulting in more than 3,000 deaths of Cubans, with the knowledge and support of the FBI and CIA.

Congress acknowledges the work of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in its defence of the Miami Five, urges support and calls for:

i) a prompt retrial of the Five in any venue other than Miami;

ii) full visiting rights for all of the families in the meanwhile; and

iii) work with US unions to bring further pressure on the US administration.

Congress further calls on the General Council to support:

a) an autumn campaign of action, to include national press adverts calling for freedom for the Five, to mark the 10th anniversary of their imprisonment.