Unison chief's 'call to arms' warns of long fight over public-sector cuts
Dave Prentis said the coalition war in the civil service union met with a strong industrial
Dave Prentis, head of the largest UK public sector unions, has stepped up the rhetoric of the strike, the government's promise of a campaign of unprecedented strike and said its annual conference, "This is our call to arms. "
Unison leader said he would continue the strike until the government backtracked on its controversial proposals to reform public sector pensions. The campaign to "break the wage freeze, stop the sacrifice of jobs and send the packet of the coalition" is spreading.
Prentis, David Cameron, accused the advocacy of the "bankers 'fat cat' and sacrificing low-paid workers in the public sector. But it also strongly attacked the Labour Party, threatening to withdraw its support if the party with the union's campaign.
said government action in public services: "They are now more than Thatcher dared to cut them unfinished declared war on public services - with donors curators, companies in the city., donors to meet again at the heart of government. "
He pledged support for the four unions holding a one-day strike next week and said, "If the government fails to listen, to heed our warnings, to negotiate in good faith, I say, David Cameron, who have not seen anything yet. We are going on strike to defend our pensions. A campaign of unprecedented strike. Yes, we expect the best. Yes, we will negotiate. But the plan for the worst. Our preparations are well advanced, but there is more to do.
"It's our union call to arms to return to their branches to prepare for the work you have a lot of work to do .. Decide in the regions of the action taken, millions of leaflets to distribute, win the argument with the public, recruit new members to the cause. The strike will continue. and intensified political campaigns and the public.
- "The fight of our lives may be an overused cliché, but the conference's all. A fight we can win a battle we must win, so who will win a fight. "
- Last week, discussions on pension reform
- between unions and ministers to chair the delegation of the Union Prentis, threatened to collapse after the Treasury chief secretary, Danny Alexander, announced an agreement unilaterally. Prentis told the Guardian that it would be the biggest strike since 1926, with the deployment of the action throughout Britain as the government refused to back down.
He issued a message to the government on reforms to the NHS, saying: "We want the bill scrapped and will fight every step of the way until [Andrew ] Lansley throws it into the box where it belongs. "
Work, said: "This is the breakdown of political consensus that says that markets know best the truth, Labour has built the bridge over which the Conservatives currently in the future, [it is] only support candidates who support working .. for our values, our unity, our people. "
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