The Socialist 18 April 2012 Strike on 10 May! Vote TUSC on 3 May!  Strike on 10 May! Vote TUSC on 3 May! 10 May strike will re-ignite pensions battle Scrap the act! Unions must call national demo to save NHS The revolting philanthropy of the filthy rich Welsh government slashes student grants NUS needs a fighting leadership Clegg's text message plans make us LOL! On 3 May use your vote to: Shake up politics and fight all cuts! Vote Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) on 3 May Come and hear TUSC candidates standing in your area Re-elect the PCS fighting leadership Health service pensions - reject the deal - coordinated action needed Changing the trade unions into combative organisations 1932 - mass trespass won the right to roam No to cuts: make the bosses pay! Success at Varndean College, Brighton USA: An 'inspiring vibrant movement' Tunisia: Brutal government crackdown on protesters will backfire Grim toll for hidden police racism |
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Home | The Socialist 18 April 2012 | Join the Socialist Party Health service pensions - reject the deal - coordinated action neededThe 2012 Unison Health Care Service Group Conference will take place from 23-25 April 2012 in Brighton. The conference comes in the middle of the Unison ballot on pensions in the health service and during the service group executive elections which end on 18 May. This pensions deal should be decisively rejected. On 30 November many health service workers took strike action as part of the two-million-strong public sector strike in a tremendous show of defiance. This demonstration of anger and frustration was not only against the increase in the retirement age and paying more for a smaller pension but against the continuous reorganisations, job losses, the Health and Social Care Act and £20 billion in brutal so-called efficiency savings, really cuts. Disgracefully, instead of building on this magnificent action and continuing to work alongside those public sector unions who reject the deal, our Unison leadership decided to halt any further action. This is despite the fact that the government was not prepared to discuss any concessions. This government is determined to drive down our wages, terms and conditions, having recently announced that they are in favour of introducing regional pay. As staffing costs represent 70% of their budgets, they say they have no choice but to either cut services or attack our pay and conditions to meet the £20 billion 'savings' target. But, according to the press, the NHS chiefs have said after this they are looking at another £20 billion of cuts! Because of the political consequences of cuts in services, they are much more likely to cut staff pay and working conditions. If we don't defend our pensions it will give the green light to this government of the rich to attack our other rights and conditions. It is clear that we need a strong union. We must reject the argument that any cuts are necessary - just look at the amount lost to the public purse through tax avoidance, mainly by the rich - £120 billion annually! Taking all the privatised services back in-house would mean the NHS wasn't subsidising the fat profits of the contractor companies. We face another year with no pay rise and then two further years of an imposed pay rise of 1%. We cannot trust this government of millionaires, only interested in allowing their rich friends and families to get even richer, and making working people pay for it. Unison, as the largest public sector union, must reject this deal and start to coordinate united industrial action with the other unions rejecting the deal. In this issue Socialist Party news and analysis
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