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13/09/2010
Unions Call For Co-Ordinated Action On Cuts
Trade unions are calling for co-ordinated strike action against the Government's planned spending cuts.
Delegates at the TUC's annual congress in Manchester have backed plans for "joint industrial action", if the scale of planned Govenrment cuts is not reduced.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said that the cuts were a "savage and opportunistic attack on public services" and said that although no-one took strike action lightly: "Where members, faced with attacks on jobs, pay or pensions take a democratic decision for industrial action, they will have the support of unions and the TUC stands ready to co-ordinate that."
Bob Crow, the leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers' union, has called for a campaign of "civil disobedience". He accused the Coalition Government of unleashing "all out class warfare through their unprecedented attack on our communities, public services, welfare state and transport system".
However, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he though such an idea would be "counter productive".
The Coalition Government's spending review, which aims to tackle the £155 billion budget deficit, is due to be published on October 20.
Speaking to the BBC, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said the Government would like to what the unions had to say, but stressed that it had inherited a "terrible budget deficit" and that it was "absolutely necessary" to eradicate it.
(KMcA/BMcC)
Delegates at the TUC's annual congress in Manchester have backed plans for "joint industrial action", if the scale of planned Govenrment cuts is not reduced.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said that the cuts were a "savage and opportunistic attack on public services" and said that although no-one took strike action lightly: "Where members, faced with attacks on jobs, pay or pensions take a democratic decision for industrial action, they will have the support of unions and the TUC stands ready to co-ordinate that."
Bob Crow, the leader of the Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers' union, has called for a campaign of "civil disobedience". He accused the Coalition Government of unleashing "all out class warfare through their unprecedented attack on our communities, public services, welfare state and transport system".
However, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he though such an idea would be "counter productive".
The Coalition Government's spending review, which aims to tackle the £155 billion budget deficit, is due to be published on October 20.
Speaking to the BBC, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said the Government would like to what the unions had to say, but stressed that it had inherited a "terrible budget deficit" and that it was "absolutely necessary" to eradicate it.
(KMcA/BMcC)
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