Three-pronged plan to defend public services and workers

The Scottish Council meeting of UNISON Branches last week backed a three-pronged plan to defend public sector wages, jobs, pensions and services - under attack from ‘all major political parties’.

“We reject the idea that providers and recipients of vital services should pay the price for a crisis not of our making”, said the motion moved by Brian Smith of Glasgow City Branch.

“No one service or one union should fight alone”, said Brian as he outlined the plan to:-

• step up local and national campaigns to recruit new members
• pursue a high profile campaign that builds of the ‘Stop the Cuts in Local Services’ guide
• Raise with other public service trade unions the idea of co-ordinated action in defence of jobs, wages and services.

For the Scottish Committee, John Stevenson welcomed the confirmation of UNISON policy and the focus on recruitment but questionned whether ‘all major political parties’ were involved in the attacks.

He warned a ‘plague on all their houses’ approach could create apathy and “we may wake up one morning to a Tory Government by default”. He called on LabourLink members to continue to make their voice heard in the Labour Party to defend services.

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