UNISON steps up for public services

By the tens of thousands, UNISON members came from all across the country today to defy the wet weather of London and step up for public services as part of the national TUC march and rally today. A samba band, a giant flag, maracas and vuvuzelas, glitter, giant balloons and UNISON banners from across the union – and UNISON members – added a festive air to decidedly grey streets in London’s West End as the marchers made their way from the Thames Embankent at Westminster to the rally and speeches in Hyde Park. But they marched with a serious message: after eight years of austerity and cuts, working people and public services need a new deal.   General secretary Dave Prentis had marched at the front a huge UNISON section of the demonstration and congratulated all who took part for “making yourselves heard, demanding change, standing up for your jobs, your communities  and our public services. “And telling this Tory government once and for all that it’s time for them to go! Time for an end to austerity; an end to cuts; an end to Tory cruelty.” Austerity had been a political choice, not an economic necessity, he told the crowd at the rally. And “it’s our people, our class, who suffer” – across the board, from the residents of Grenfell Tower, through public service workers “battered by cuts yet always expected to do more with less,” to the Windrush generation, losing jobs, denied care and even deported by “a callous, racist government.” “...
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