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UNISON Scotland campaign for jobs, services,
fair taxation and Living Wage
Austerity is not working.
The front line starts here
Click here for pdf document
The front line starts here March 2012: New UNISON report argues for proper service redesign instead of back office cuts through flawed 'shared service' models
March & Rally 24 Mar Troon
Click here for pdf poster
No to workfare - Yes to jobs
March and Rally against youth unemployment outside
Tory Conference in Troon
Sat 24 March 2012
Assemble 12 noon
South Beach Esplanade (Victoria Drive)
March off: 12.30 pm
Rally 1.00 pm
South Beach Esplanade (Titchfield Rd)
Report and pics from rally
Public
Works Update
September
2011  Building
for STUC 1st October - People First demo in Glasgow
August
2011
Shared
Services Resources
August 2011: "Latest excuse
for a business case" - Clyde Valley Shared Services
Briefing
Public Works Update
June 2011: Pensions campaign
Public Works Update
April 2011: Scottish Parliament
elections 2011 – use your vote for public services -
Questions for candidates.
Reports from London Rally
TELL A COUNCILLOR
- There is a better way....
Public
Sector Reform
January 2011: UNISON Scotland Briefing
No 244(243).
covers Christie Commission on Future Public Service
Delivery and other reform initiatives. See also
Public
Service Reform Jan 2011 powerpoint for use in
branches.
Scottish
Councils financial settlement
December 2010: UNISON Scotland
Briefing No 243
Scottish
Budget
November 2010: UNISON Scotland
Briefing No 242
Budget
statement - UNISON Scotland initial response
17 November 2010
Press release
Getting
Councils to support services and jobs
October 2010: UNISON Scotland Briefing
No 240
MSP Briefing
on Independent Budget Review
9 September 2010: UNISON Scotland
calls for MSPS to champion a better way in Scottish
Parliament IBR debate.
Three wise men? (pdf)
3 September 2010: Dave Watson looks at the Report of the Independent Budget Review Panel - article for Scottish Left Review
Response
to Independent Budget Review
August 2010: UNISON Scotland Briefing
No 236
An
unwise prescription for an assault on public services
29 July 2010: UNISON Scotland comprehensively
rejects the Independent Budget Review.
Privatisation
and cuts will hurt economy
28 July 2010: Independent Budget
Review report set to respond to privatisation and
cuts agenda rather than looking at what services
Scotland needs and can afford.
There
IS an alternative
22 June 2010: "The battle
for Britain’s public services has begun with the
Government declaring war." Dave Prentis outlines
UNISON's alternative to the ConDem budget
The
Tory/LibDem coalition deal - impact on Scotland
12 May 2010: Key points of new
coalition deal including £6bn of immediate
cuts
Prentis:
We face the biggest challenge ever 12 May 2010:
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis calls on members
and activists to "join us in the fight of our lives
to defend our vital public services."
Spot the
difference campaign poster Sharp-eyed
Scottish cartoonist Frank Boyle's take on what the
future might hold for public services...
Public
Works: Toolkit
Resources for branches
to campaign against public service cuts
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For public services.
UNISON Scotland Local Government Manifesto 2012 full version (pdf)
UNISON Scotland Local Government Manifesto
for 2012 Local Government Elections - Click here
for pdf of full 20 page document
UNISON Scotland Local Government Summary
Manifesto
for 2012 Local Government Elections - Click here
for pdf of 4 page version
New Manifesto
for Education published (pdf)
New Social Care manifesto
There is an alternative
A
day in the life
Our public services are the most efficient way to
deliver the things we need. You use public services
every day and you get enormous value for what you
pay.
Here's
how... A day in the life of public services
(Click
here for a pdf of 'A day in the life...' leaflet)
Revitalise Public Services
Revitalise: UNISON Scotland's contribution to the debate on public service reform. Click here for bulletins and updates
CAMPAIGN EVENTS
MOBILISE: Campaign Skills Festival
Glasgow19-21 November
Edinburgh 23 Oct 2010 Demonstration
Report,
pics and videos
There is
an alternative! Strategy Conference
4 September 2010
Thistle Hotel, Glasgow
Planning the strategy against cuts and for the public
services campaign
UNISON March
& Rally against cuts - Sat 10 April 2010 in Glasgow
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And a better Scotland.
Council
elections 3 May: 10 Questions to ask your candidates
- page and leaflet
Public Service FUTURES
Issue 2 - Mar 2012: Blue light changes,
local elections, childcare benefits everyone, shared
services fail again, McLelland Review
Public Service FUTURES
Issue 1 - July 2011 : Christie Review,
Shared services, Disaster down under, Avoiding the
road to nowhere, McLelland Review
For Public Services
UNISON Scotland's Manifesto for 2011 Scottish Elections
Click here for pdf
Manifesto 2011
In the run up to the Scottish Parliament
elections in 2011 we worked to make sure that UNISON
voices were heard by Scotland’s political
parties. Our manifesto process
for 2011 identified a
dozen core positions and a range of policy ideas.
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UNISON's 'Public Works' campaign - we all need to do our
bit to defend public service jobs and services
March 2010: UNISON Scotland has launched its 'Public Works' campaign
with the message that public service cuts will increase
costs for ordinary families and will delay economic recovery.
'Public Works' is the Scottish arm of the union's 'Million
Voices for Change' campaign. And branches and members
need to play their part in getting the message over.
UNISON has warned that the headlong rush to cut and privatise
public services will lead to delays in coming out of recession
It has produced a leaflet demonstrating the importance
of public services to everyone's lives and pointing to
the huge costs that would fall on people if public services
were not available.
Matt Smith - UNISON's Scottish Secretary, said "'A
day in the life...' follows an average woman through
her day and points out our dependence on public services
- from water and sewerage, through environmental health
and refuse collection, to education and health care.
"It points out that all of us rely on public services,
not just the most vulnerable, for whom they can be a lifeline."
What can you do?
Matt Smith added, "We are keen to involve members in
this campaign. After all we are both the front-line providers
of public services and the users of public services. Who
knows their importance and their value better that us?"
"We are asking you all to sign up individually to the
"Million
Voices" campaign at national level. We would also
like you to tell us what you do in your job and why it
is important. And tell us your own experiences of using
public services - how they have supported you and your
families."
Why public services are so important
Affordable and value for money
Matt warned, "We need to get across the message that
if these services are cut back or privatised the increased
costs of paying for them individually can only increase
the cost burden on hard-pressed families.
"We estimate the average household gets more than
£10,000 a year in benefits and public services. Public
delivery provides value for money through economies of
scale and stopping shareholders taking profits out of
the pot.
"A year's domestic waste collection sourced privately
would cost around £2,500, and the average cost of a year's
education outside the public sector in Scotland is around
£8,200."
Important for the economy
"But it is not just that public services are essential
for all of us. They also play a key part in the economic
well-being of our communities. Cuts in public sector jobs,
pay and pensions will only lead to less money being spent
to stimulate the economy, and if public services were
cut they would order and contract less with the private
sector.
"Far from being the drain on the economy argued by those
who created the economic crisis, the public sector contracts
for supplies and services from the private sector - especially
important when private industry faces reduced order books.
A just and fairer society
"In addition money spent in the economy by public service
staff will not be there if we accept the advice of the
right wing think tanks to cut jobs, pay and pensions.
Now is the time to build a fairer society based on social
justice, good jobs and quality public services. It is
up to all of us to highlight the importance of public
services and to get across the message that Public Works!"
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Scotland's
biggest public service union
million
voices for change - PUBLIC WORKS!
