National Delegate Conference 21-24 June
2011
Go back to your branches and prepare for action
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Dave Prentis
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Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary has vowed that UNISON
will wear this Government down, sap their strength, and bring
them closer to breaking point, in the defence of Public Services,
Public Sector workers and their pensions.
Dave instructed UNISON activists at National Delegate Conference
in Manchester to go back to their branches and prepare for battle.
Dave slammed Cameron's Britain - "a country of ever widening inequality;
the profits from banks - never higher;
In just the past year alone, £7 billion paid out in city bonuses.
Little wonder the 1,000 richest people in this country have seen
their wealth soar by an average of 18 per cent in the past year."
"Let's turn our fire where it's deserved. We know who the enemy
is. It's the bankers who crashed our world. The venture capitalists
who sucked the life blood out of Southern Cross. It is this coalition,
who set our nation on a reckless course. They are the enemy, this
coalition. With no democratic mandate, taking a chainsaw to our
public services."
"And I'll say it again; If there's money to bail out the banks,
if there's money to protect their bonuses. If there's money for
war and replacing Trident, there's money available for our local
services and our NHS."
Dave described the NHS review, as a cynical exercise in deceit
and deception - it might be paused but the threat to our NHS is
greater than at any time since 1948 and the union remains on red
alert.
"So our message is clear, To Lansley, Cameron and Clegg. We
want the bill scrapped and we will fight you every step of the
way." Dave said, This union has the faith, and this union has
the fight. We will defend our NHS. We will defeat this bill, And
we will win."
On pensions proposals, Dave warned Cameron, Osborne and Clegg,
"don't underestimate the outrage and anger of our members, at
the savagery of your gratuitous attack on our pensions - to pay
more, get less, work longer.
The anger and outrage of our members at their crude efforts
to set public sector against private - to start a new race to
the bottom."
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