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Tuesday 21 June No 2 - Reports
Support the Sefton Six
It is now over five weeks since Sefton Council suspended
six of our activists. They are alleged to have "threatened and intimidated
staff, tenants and councillors" and "brought the council into disrepute",
All six completely deny the allegations.
They were taking part in a peaceful protest against
the "stock transfer" of housing. CCTV covered the whole event and
the police were in attendance.
As a result of viewing the CCTV footage the NW region
has written to Sefton Council insisting that the suspensions be
lifted because there is no evidence of "serious misconduct".
The General Secretary has also written to them in
similar terms. Despite the above the six are still suspended. The
Sefton UNISON branch is being balloted for strike action to end
the suspensions. The ballot closes on 5th July.
Send donations and messages of support to
Doreen Smith, Branch Secretary, Sefton UNISON, 38
Church Road, Waterloo, Liverpool LS2 5QL.
Write to Graham Haywood, Chief Executive Sefton MBC,
Bootle Town Hall, Oriel Road, Bootle, Liverpool.
Two of the suspensions have now been lifted but the
four who remain suspended are Nigel Flanagan, Paul Summers, Rose
Morrison and Vinnie McIntyre. The campaign against stock transfers
is going well in Sefton and this dispute is a result of the council's
attempt to disrupt it.
It is important that Sefton branch is able to win
this dispute to make sure that the anti privatisation campaign carries
on.
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Herald supplement highlights UNISON's call to Make
Poverty History
You were told to watch the crane and you did - UNISON
urging people to attend the Make Poverty History demonstration on
July 2 in Edinburgh. Now, watch out for today's Herald's Make Poverty
History supplement sponsored by UNISON, as one of the major supporters
of the Make Poverty Campaign.
Crammed full of interesting and lively articles, the
Make Poverty History supplement, encourages Scotland's people to
get out there in Edinburgh on the day and take part in this historic
demonstration showing the G8 leaders that poverty no longer has
any place in this world.
Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary, puts forward
UNISON's part in the Campaign in an in depth interview. "UNISON
is calling for the UK government and others to take action on trade,
aid and debt now in order to tackle poverty. The UK Government has
done what it can by cancelling all debt due to it alone, but until
last week's announcement by Gordon Brown, progress on scrapping
multinational debts due to the World Bank, the International Monetary
Fund and the African Development Bank had stalled."
"It was great that the chancellor was able to broker
the deal to cancel the £30bn worth of debts but there still remains
an awful lot to be done."
"It's the citizens of the UK who say they want life
for Africans to be very different. There is a groundswell of demand
for something to be done about poverty, aid and trade restrictions
and it is on these platforms that the Make Poverty History movement
is campaigning."
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A call from Today's fringe meeting
Engage Question and Address Inequality
Willingness to engage, question and address inequality was visible
by the sheer number of participants at the fringe meeting organised
this afternoon to address in equality in workplace and community
action.
Sofi Taylor NEC, presented an overview on recent changes in trends
with regards to migration. She said: "UNISON was unable to debate
on migration last year, leaving us with no policy on migration.
In order to develop a policy, it is time for UNISON to call for
a debate.
"Any such policy will indeed provide an opportunity to defend the
rights of our migrant workers": she added.
Jacquline McDowel highlighted that discrimination takes place on
more than one dimension. "It is not an issue for LGBT only - it
affects us all. The reality is we identify ourselves on multi dimensions,
which matches more than one Equality strands. Hence the challenge
for us is to address discrimination on all dimensions": she added.
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Retired Members campaigner rene Sweeney, showed how on more than
one fronts such as benefits, employment, training, and insurance
older people face discrimination.
She said: "There is no difference between young and old people
when it comes to discrimination. The problems we face are common
in many ways. It is time to join our energies and work together
to address discrimination in work place and around us".
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