Election statement, UNISON Birmingham Local Govt Branch elections 2010/11
WHAT are the problems?
*destruction of Council services, meaning redundancies. UNISON have never opposed the "closure programme" that has meant the destruction of many many homes and other facilities. Now the redundancies have started, UNISON meekly calls for them to be "voluntary" while signing up to "jobseeker sessions" to train for jobs that might not exist.
*lack of members' meetings, effectively disenfranchising us as our jobs and the services we provide disappear - regular UNISON Branch meetings that any member may attend must be started or re-started, so that members can see and affect what's happening!
*the attacks being prepared for us as public sector workers even if Labour manage to hold on to Government can only be realistically opposed by a struggle for the extension of all Council services - trying to "minimise the attack" is not good enough!
The destruction in Younger Adults LD (where I work) has already been huge, and continues - it's the same throughout the Council, and the unions have to FIGHT: the only chance of saving us from the private sector!
UNISON needs shaking up, and I shall be about resistance to every attack upon our jobs and/or our services!
Steven Thorpe-Revins, Social Services UNISON rep
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