Tyne & Wear Left Unity – Budget Protest Stall & Petition – 1pm til 2pm, Grey’s Monument Newcastle (Tue 22 June)

TYNE & WEAR LEFT UNITY
TWLU BUDGET PROTEST STALL AND PETITION on
TUESDAY 22ND JUNE 1PM -2pm
AT THE MONUMENT, NEWCASTLE

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We will then be joining the TUC save our services rally at 4.30pm at Ceremonial Way, Newcastle Civic Centre tomorrow as well. More than 750,000 public sector jobs will be cut – 30,000 in the North East.

We won’t pay for the boss’s crisis –stall and petition for government

Building resistance to the cuts and job losses –

The ConDem coalition government presents its spending cuts as both justifiable and unavoidable. Prime Minister David Cameron is doing his best to convince us that we should quietly acquiesce to a cuts programme that will affect “our whole way of life.”

We are told that we have to ‘rebalance the economy away from a reliance on government jobs’ and we are ‘too dependent on the public sector for jobs.’

We keep getting told we are all in this together and should therefore share the burden. But the financial crisis was the fault of the bankers, and the politicians who deregulated the financial sector to allow them free rein. When in trouble, the banks received generous bailouts to the tune of a staggering £850bn.

We are not ‘too dependent on the public sector for jobs’. These jobs are vital to the functioning of our society. We cannot afford to see them slashed and our public services weakened beyond repair.

We reject the idea that working class people must pay for a crisis they didn’t create. We reject the current blind acceptance that “we’re all in this together” and that we – and that always means ordinary working people, of course, not the rich – have to accept changes that will affect “our whole way of life.”

Workers in Greece, Spain and elsewhere are already showing that it is possible to fight back. We need similar resistance in Britain. We call for a coalition of trade unionists, campaigners, community groups and public service users to campaign for a different set of priorities to that imposed by this bankers’ coalition.

We should collectively tell the bankers and the ConDem coalition that we can’t pay for their crisis – and we won’t pay for it.

Signatories:

Dave Anderson MP (Labour),
Tony Dabb (NUT rep),
Alan Docherty (Unison member),
Tony Dowling (membership secretary, Gateshead NUT),
Paula Holland (curriculum manager, Adult Learning Alliance),
Fazia Hussain (Regional Officer, Unite the Union),
Martin Levy (Chair, Northern Region UCU),
Norman Maines (Unite the Union and branch manager, Victim Support),
Barry Purdy (Unite the Union),
Yvonne Ridley, (European President, International Muslim Women’s Union)
Rizwan Sheikh (Unison and co-ordinator, Vulnerable Workers Project),
Alex Snowdon (NUT member),
David Stead (Asst Secretary, Tyneview Park PCS),
Nigel Todd (Labour councillor, Newcastle),
Mark Tyers (Unison member),
Alison Whalley (Green Party member),
John Whalley (Green Party member),
Steve Whitley (retired union member),
Katherine M Yarrow (Unison rep)

(All in personal capacity)

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