Attended a good "Unite the Resistance" meeting last night. It was refreshing to see so many people from so many TUs working hard towards a common goal; uniting to fight the unnecessary austerity measures imposed on us ordinary workers. The meeting launched the pamphlet "Trade Unions and the Fight against Austerity" with foreword by John McDonnell MP. Not read all yet but from what I have read it looks like a sort of publication which is long overdue. TU branches and activists can no longer treat themselves as isolated islands concerned only with their own sector, industry or issues with their immediate employers. Austerity and cuts are hurting all of us and resistant should be on a large scale bringing all individual struggles together.
The meeting heard about the horrendous effects of the cuts in the public sector. These cuts are literally killing people. We heard how job centre, post office, NHS and other public sector staff are exploited with their terms and conditions being constantly eroded. We heard how the public sector staff are closely watched to ensure they do not exercise any of their own judgement and just carry out instructions - a military style of management? We heard how the divide and rule policies of this Con-Dem government is pitting worker against worker / private sector against public sector / the young against the old and the employed against unemployed....
Let's unite and concentrate our efforts on exposing the real benefit scroungers - Tax dodging companies, executives on huge bonuses, bankers who have ruined the economy and of course the government which squeezes the life out of the workers, the low income and unemployed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Looking forward to the next meeting
http://uniteresist.org/
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