‘We need to get the message out about the need to invest in public servcies’

Delegates representing UNISON members working in police and justice services are meeting at an interesting time, at the end of party conference season, assistant general secretary Christina McAnea told their conference in Southport this morning. It’s when “politicians of all parties usually compete to say what they would do to stop crime,” she noted – adding that UNISON members no doubt felt reassured that the Tories are once again calling themselves the party of law and order. Yet this is a party that, just a week ago, was found to have acted unlawfully in proroguing Parliament. “But this party of law and order has also been responsible for a 40% cut in PCSO numbers, a 20% cut in other police staff and a 14% reduction of police officer posts – cuts that have led to a rise in serious and violent crime. “Well I’d hate to see what they would do if they weren’t the party of law and order. “And if that wasn’t bad enough, just look at the mess and chaos they’ve created in the probation service.” Congratulating the union’s probation service committee for its campaign against former justice Chris Grayling’s failed privatisation and fragmentation of the service in England and Wales, Ms McAnea said that the union has three “common sense” demands: a reunified service brought back under democratic control, provided by public-service employers; with no compulsory redundancies and national collective bargaining between unions and the new employers. But sh...
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