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TUC Rally, Manchester, Sunday 2 October 2011
Services that hold communities together and protect the most vulnerable in our society are being cut and privatised by the Tory-led coalition. We have seen high inflation, high unemployment, cuts in benefits, cuts to the Education Maintenance Allowance and Connexions service, rising university fees, attacks on pensions and service cuts – all of which the [...]
Osborne’s first Budget?
It’s wrong, wrong, wrong! And it’s not just the trade unions who are worried about the Government’s austerity programme. Many economists, including Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prizewinner who predicted the global crisis, predicts the Chancellor’s first Budget will take the UK deeper into recession and hit millions – particularly the poorest – badly. In a [...]
The Coalition cuts into Public Services
It was a full house for the Branch AGM back in February where Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, was the guest speaker. He spoke powerfully about the challenges the public sector would likely face from an incoming government, forced to pay for the bankers recession. And he reminded members that it would be unions like [...]
In my view
In my view… “If it wasn’t already obvious beforehand, it is now abundantly clear after the emergency budget just who wears the trousers in the Con Dem coalition. Make no mistake: this was an unashamedly Tory budget, and a massive attack on the public sector and the people who deliver public services. As well as [...]
Big Society – Big cop out – Warns UNISON
Commenting on the launch of David Cameron’s ‘big society’, Dave Prentis, General Secretary of UNISON, the UK’s largest public service union, said: “Cameron’s “big society” should be renamed the “big cop out.” Make no mistake this plan is all about saving money. And it will cost even more jobs and lead to more service cuts. [...]
Manchester TUC rally a huge success