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RECENT NEWS ARTICLES1st July 2011 Online fury at 'spineless' Ed Miliband over failure to back strikes. Guardian
30th June
2011 40,000 welsh public sector employees join strike BBC Wales Thousands join picket lines in biggest strike for five years Wales on Line23rd May 2011 First minister slams passport office job cuts Argus Article 11th March 2011Universities face lecturer walkout over pension reforms Wales on Line9th March 2011 Newport Women March Against the Cuts Argus Article Who can I contact for more info? Also follow us on Facebook!
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Thousands Strike Across Wales Against Tory Attacks on Jobs and Pensions |
'Newport Against The Cuts' is a campaign created by Newport
Trades Union Council to focus and engender cross-community
participation in opposing the Coalition Government's implementation
of its public sector cuts policy. "The lessons of our movement are that we are stronger together. That's why people join a union. The challenges we face today mean that we have to be more united than to resist the attacks on our jobs, pensions, pay and our entire communities and the welfare state" - Mark Serwotka -PCS General Secretary "And so to the
fight for pensions. Our biggest test yet. To those who say “name the
day”, I say – “a day won’t be enough”. This coalition won’t move
with one day. To those who say, “negotiate”, I say “anytime,
anywhere, for as long as it takes”. To Danny Alexander. Boffin or
buffoon? He may have done us a favour. The world now knows what
they’re about. A 50% increase in pensions contributions -not a penny
into the pensions funds. A 50% reduction in benefits. All workers to
work longer, and if you happen to be privatised – well tough. You
can’t take it with you…. And to add insult to injury, 300,000 women
finding out on the radio that their state pension age will go up,
yet again, to 65, then to 67, and more. They will lose thousands.
And it’s daylight robbery".
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 30th June 2011.
In Newport Public service workers from PCS, NUT ATL and
UCU took strike action today in response to the Government's attack
on public sector pensions, jobs, and pay. Newport strikers with
support from other union members took to the streets and joined a
rally at John Frost Square to hear inspiring speeches from Union
Leaders and Union Officers from workplaces across NewportIn Cardiff, hundreds of striking workers assembled to show their anger, marching through the city centre from Sophia Gardens to the Welsh Government offices in Cathays Park. The Police closed Castle Street, Kingsway and Boulevard de Nantes to traffic for the estimated crowd of 700 people. Further rallies took place during the day in Wrexham, Llandrindod Wells, Merthyr Tydfil, and Swansea. A union delegation met Finance Minister Jane Hutt at Cardiff Bay on Wednesday to call on the Welsh Government to pressure UK ministers on their behalf.
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