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Model resolution
for a national demonstration against the cuts in 2010
We call on workers
across the trade union movement to pass the following motion in your union
branch, in your workplace, in your student union or anti-cuts campaign as
soon as possible. The TUC has stated that joint union action is the way to
stop the cuts. This policy needs to be turned into a reality. We should
bombard the TUC ([email protected]) and union leaders with demands for
action now:
�This (name of TU body etc.) is opposed to
every cut in the �83 billion austerity package demanded by this millionaire
ConDem government.
We will not accept
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a million job cuts
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doubling of student fees
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drastic cuts to welfare benefits
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increasing the pension age to 66 and
beyond
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mass privatisation of services
We believe that these cuts will only be
defeated by powerful union action led by the trade unions, and backed up
together with campaigns of service users, welfare claimants, students,
pensioners and others.
The TUC general council met on the day
Osborne announced the slaughter of public services and agreed to call a
national demo in March 2011. This doesn�t show the urgency necessary given
the scale and depth of the attacks.
We therefore call on our National Executive Committee (or appropriate
national body) to call an emergency meeting immediately, to contact other
unions to co-ordinate a suitable date for joint action and a national
demonstration before Xmas.
We also believe it is necessary to prepare
for a public sector 24-hour strike. In 2005 public sector unions coordinated
strike ballots in defence of pensions; this is absolutely necessary now as a
first step to stronger action if the government does not retreat on their
brutal measures�.
This resolution was
adopted unanimously by the rally against the cuts at the end of the
demonstration in London on 23October 2010, organised by the RMT, FBU, PCS,
NUT, CWU and UCU unions and the National Shop Stewards Network.
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