| "What
are the Tories thinking? Use your vote to stop them"
This is the message to be proclaimed from many billboards
across the UK during the General Election Campaign.
Once again UNISON will be using its General Political Fund
(GPF) to campaign to defend public services and take action
against racism.
As a UK General Election, of course many of the issues
that will be raised by UNISON members down South are in
Scotland devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
However the government of the UK is important for UNISON
members in Scotland as well - not least because it sets
the total amount of money to be spent on public services
across the UK.
Billboards urging people to use their vote to stop the
Tories are planned and, although we won't be able to comprehensively
cover Scotland, we want to get to as many targets as possible.
Dave Watson, UNISON's Head of Policy in Scotland said.
"Whilst the main policy thrust for this years campaign
is coming from our UK colleagues, there are still many issues
of concern to UNISON members in Scotland. Not least the
consequences of the Tories spending £35bn less on
public services. "
As we go to press we are also hearing about further BNP
attempts to use this election to peddle their racism in
Scotland and we want to target them too.
"The financial restrictions of the Political Parties,
Elections and Referenda Act, now means a limit on campaign
spending by a third party (ie. a union like UNISON), and
the union is currently attempting to balance the amounts
spent on billboards with the other demands of the campaign."
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