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Press Release for
Immediate Use: 18/10/10
Trade Unionists state:
�We pledge to fight all the cuts!�
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- Demonstration organised on 23rd
October, 11:00am
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- Mass leafleting of Euston Station on 21st
October, 7:30am
On Saturday 23rd October,
Striking fire-fighters and tube workers will lead a march against the
government�s austerity measures, starting at 11:00am from the RMT
headquarters on Chalton Street. The protest will head to Bedford Square,
near TUC HQ Congress House, where general secretaries Matt Wrack (FBU) and
Bob Crow (RMT) will address the rally. The march has been backed and
organised by the London Regions of the RMT, FBU, PCS, CWU and NUT unions and
the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN).
NSSN Secretary Linda Taaffe said today: �The
ConDem government has thrown down a gauntlet. London trade unions have
pledged to pick it up and take the fight back to these millionaire friends
of greedy bankers. We do not accept that there is no alternative. We refuse
to allow cuts that will see our families reduced to poverty now or in the
future.�
On Thursday 21st October, the
day after George Osborne details where the axe will fall, fire-fighters,
tube workers, posties, civil servants and teachers will be out campaigning
together in a mass leafleting session around Euston Station in central
London, asking people to join our demonstration.
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For further information contact:
Linda Taaffe (Secretary NSSN) 07952 283
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Martin Powell Davies (NUT) 07946 445 488
On behalf of the Organising Committee
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