Camden protest for real wages for public service workers and against the moral bankruptcy euphemistically known as 'austerity'
Content from Camden UNISON and Camden Trades Council, Heading by Swheatie of the KUWG
Camden
UNISON with the backing of Camden Trades Council has called a demo from
5.30 PM in the south of the borough, with the aim of engaging of other
UNISON branches, not least in Higher Education, to join in a call for a
long overdue real pay rise.
The past five years have seen the typical
value of real wages fall by 18% even as tens of thousands of jobs in
local authorities have disappeared. Through Camden Trades Council we're
also seeking to reach out to other public sector unions with the aim of
making
the evening a more generalised protest against austerity with George
Osborne making plain that the Coalition would be demanding an additional
£25bn in spending cuts over and above those previously announced. Local
FBU members have already indicated they will be joining in and Camden
teachers look likely to be part of the protest too. By coincidence our
local march coincides with the first day of a 48-hour strike by the RMT
and quite possibly the TSSA over ticket office closures across the whole
of the Tube network and some 950 job losses on London Underground.
The Crowndale Centre, Eversholt Street, London, NW1
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