UNISON reaction to budget
Ballot results released today
Staff at Staffordshire University will hold protests at 5.45pm tomorrow outside the vicechancellor's office on Blackheath Lane, in a row over pay.
Responding to the Emergency Budget today (Tuesday) TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said:
“This Budget was economically dangerous and socially divisive. The one thing we can now say is that we are very definitely not all in this together. Those on middle and low incomes have done worse than expected, and the rich have been let off much of what they feared.
“But we will all suffer from an economy that is now likely to be sluggish at best and with a double-dip recession at worst.”
UCU today said the news that Corporation Tax is to be slashed from 28% to 24% made a mockery of the coalition government's claims that 'we are all in this together'.
TRANSPORT UNION RMT today slammed what it described as 'the ConDem's budget for the rich' - warning of widespread community and industrial resistance once people realise the full scale of the impact of the Government's cuts plans for public services and the true cost for jobs and standards of living.
Unite members who were due to take strike action on Thursday at Cereal Partners UK have called off one of the three planned 48 hour strikes following a last minute offer by the company.
Unite members working at Cereal Partners UK, a joint venture by Nestlé and General Mills in Trowbridge, will take part in a series of 48 hour strikes beginning at 6am on Thursday 24 June in a row over a pay-freeze.
Unite is extremely alarmed that AEGON has today informed staff of plans to make cost savings of 25 per cent in the UK arm of the business.
Unite members who were due to take strike action on Thursday at Cereal Partners UK have called off one of the three planned 48 hour strikes following a last minute offer by the company.