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Motion: "BTUC welcomes the formation of "Birmingham Against the Cuts".
Guest Speaker – Latin American Trade Unionist.
There is a thirst and a hunger!
But we sit in our homes and let the Government make cuts!
and the loss of thousands of jobs whilst the bankers get rich!
for the mistakes of consecutive governments made day after day!
and using the recession as their damn excuse!
And they think a royal wedding will help heal our scars!
Those rights that my ancestors in this country fought to protect!
I believe as a people united – we can succeed!
Saturday 26th March – TUC National Demonstration Against the Cuts – London – 11am-4pm.
@ Musurut Dar, I would like to copy your poem to my wordpress fiction and poetry blog "Tales of Unwise Paths". May I have your permission?
The meeting will start with a tribute to our friend and comrade Tina Mackay by Cathy Gaffney. Tina was tragically killed in a road traffic accident in London.
"Cuts in Public Services and the recent Riots".
The GMB union is the third largest trades union with over 600,000 members in both private industry and public services. It has been regarded as one of the staunchest supporters of the Labour Party, but is committed to balloting its public sector membership for strike action on November 30th over cuts to pension provision.
"now it is clear that austerity is failing," – what rubbish!
My husband is one of those agency workers …picking up minimum wage to work on street cleansing, he has done it for 3 years now, of course they wont hire him, when they need to make cuts. He has taken pay cut after pay cut just to keep a job, he has lost his over time, and now is expected to work week ends, but everyday he gets up and goes to work becuase we have a family. It is frightening. We hoped one day he would get a real job there, but clearly this is not going to happen. Instead he is going to be let go, they cannot make council workers redundent when agency workers exist. All this time, all his hard work, and thrown on the scrap heap. They didnt need to pay agencies, they could have paid him the minimum wage to work without paying the damn agencies. We got nothing from it. It just cost the council more and the only winners were the agency companies.
Let me point out, everyday my husband has driven the wagon for 3 years, on 1/3 the wage of those he drives around, he works side by side with them, for 1/3 their wage, and never moaned…he had no rights, we have no rights, and we will be first out of a job.
all bosses and the goverment only line their pockets;bank accounts family cofhers.they blame everyone for their short falls corruption will never be replaced.money begets money.
so if citizens have none NO advancements will be made.
bankers legally rob account holders reward themselves goverment say thats okay a man robs local corner shop to feed his family goverment sends him to jail 12 months disable persons get off benefits you are a burden to our way of living. goverment spend £300 plus per day on family holidays. person encouraged to buy their own holmes now charged bedroom tax because their house is to big.