The Socialist 22 June 2011

All strike together

As the cuts bite, millions ask: 'Does it have to be like this?'

Con-Dems' pension attack - brutal class warfare must be fought

POA to hold protest meetings

Busting the public sector pensions myths!

Staffordshire NSSN builds support for 30 June action

Hillingdon workers back the pensions strike

Strike action to defend Royal Mail jobs

Leeds Unison urges members to reject council's final offer

Coleg Morgannwg: Victory over victimisation

Barnsley lecturers fight job cuts

Unison conferences discuss action on pensions

Workplace news in brief

Housing crisis

Con-Dems still plan to destroy NHS - Save our health service!

News in brief

Greece's debt crisis threatens worldwide banking system

Finsbury Park - No to A4e cheap labour schemes

Southern Cross bosses demand huge cuts in pay and conditions

Sri Lanka's killing fields

Readers' comment: apprentice sexists

Southampton: strikes set to continue

200 workers challenge Labour council cuts

Labour MP fails to answer questions on cuts

Comprehensive education under attack

Keep Tidemill in public hands

Spreading to primaries?

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POA to hold protest meetings

The national executive committee of the Prison Officers Association (POA) has announced that lunchtime pension cuts protest meetings will be held at every prison and secure hospital on 30 June.

These are being organised at the same time as the strike action by members of four trade unions - civil service union PCS and education unions NUT, UCU and ATL - against public sector pension changes.

Members of two of those unions, PCS and UCU, work alongside prison officers.

Pete McParlin, national chair of the POA said: "It has to be unreasonable to expect my members to work to 68 years of age and pay more in contributions. In effect our terms and conditions are being ripped up and our members are being taxed to pay for the mess that bankers and politicians created."

These meetings will be held across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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