The scale of the union movement's disillusionment with the Labour government has been revealed in the motions put forward for debate at this autumn's TUC congress.

Despite a recent agreement with Labour officials on a range of policy issues, key unions remain disillusioned with Tony Blair's reform agenda.

At last month's Labour national policy forum, there was agreement on new policies to prevent employers counting bank holidays towards the statutory four weeks holiday.

There was also a commitment from ministers to work towards ending the two-tier workforce in public services, and new moves on pension protection.

But despite that, the preliminary motions for September's TUC congress contain a range of criticisms and calls for further action.

Among the motions on the provisional agenda is one from the TGWU saying that "Congress welcomes the advances made by this Labour government, but is extremely concerned at the failure to repeal Tory anti-union laws".

Another motion from Amicus calls on the government to appoint a Cabinet minister for manufacturing.

Prospect "condemns the government's decision to cut 50,000 jobs throughout the UK civil service without proper consultation with civil service unions".

And the Public and Commercial Services Union also continues its opposition to job losses in the public sector.

"Congress condemns government plans to cut over 104,000 jobs from the civil service, to relocate 20,000 away from London and the South East and to seek massive so-called 'efficiency savings'," says its motion.

"Congress notes that these cuts will severely damage service delivery, with the public receiving a poorer, less local, service. Congress rejects the simplistic division of staff into front- and back-line, recognising that all workers contribute to effective service delivery."

In a separate motion, the Fire Brigades Union warns that despite extra government cash for the public sector, "much of this increased public investment will be creamed off to pay super-profits to the private contractors involved in PFI and PPP projects rather than used to improve frontline service delivery to the public".

Ministers will be expecting a rough ride at the conference, which could set the tone for further debate at the Labour conference later in the month.

Meanwhile, business leaders criticised the motions put forward by the unions.

"When so much needs to be done on pensions, skills and UK competitiveness, I am disappointed to see a TUC annual congress agenda so steeped in the ideology of the 1970s," said CBI deputy director general John Cridland.

"Globalisation is here to stay and clinging to the policies of yesterday will help no one."