PUBLIC SECTOR PAY RALLY : THURSDAY, 14 JUNE 2007
Your attention is drawn to the above rally which is
being organised by a number of divisions in London. It is being held at Friends
Meeting House, Euston Road, (just opposite Euston Station), on Thursday, 14
June from 6.30 p.m. to 8.00 p.m..
A high profile is to be given to teachers' pay at the
rally. Speakers include: · Bill Greenshields, NUT Vice President
· Mark Serwotka, PCS General Secretary · Alan Jarman, Unison,
London Regional Convener
All welcome - make it count!.
STATEMENT FOR LONDON WIDE PAY RALLY UNITED ACTION
TO DEFEAT THE PUBLIC SECTOR PAY FREEZE
This meeting of public sector trade union members in
London rejects the Government's attempt to impose a 2% limit on public sector
pay rises when inflation is running at almost 5%. This amounts to a deliberate
policy to reduce the living standards of public service workers. We reject the
statement from ministers that our pay levels must be held down in order to pay
for spending on improved quality of provision. This amounts to a special tax on
public sector workers.
We note the billions being spent on the war in Iraq
and believe that this government can afford to increase public sector pay in
line with inflation and invest in better services. This is an attack upon all
public service workers. We therefore believe that it requires a united response
by all public sector trade unions.
If we do not organise a coordinated defence of public
sector pay we all face a continuing decline in living standards through
multi-year pay deals and the threat of Regional pay and the break up of
national bargaining.
We welcome;
- the decision of the National Union of Teachers
(NUT) at their 2007 Conference to call for joint campaigns with other public
sector unions and for a ballot for strike action in co-operation with the
largest possible coalition of public sector unions as the first stage of
industrial action to protect pay
- the request on 2 April 2007 from the General
Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) to other public
sector unions to consider joint campaigning to protect pay and applaud those
PCS members who took strike action over pay on 1 May 2007
- the decision of UNISON Health Conference on 23
April 2007 to call for industrial action over pay; · the strike ballot
of CWU members currently being held
- We call upon all public sector trade unions to take
all possible steps to coordinate negotiations on pay and to organise industrial
action on a joint union basis wherever possible. We urge the Public Sector
Liaison Group (PSLG) to make this coordination its highest priority
- We call upon officials representing our Unions at
the PSLG to pursue coordinated strike action to defend our pay. We further
resolve to participate, as far as possible, in local activities to coordinate
pay campaigns across the public sector trade unions
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