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TRADE unionists at the Scottish TUC Congress vowed yesterday to mobilise workers and communities to fight massive cuts in local government.
Fife delegate Tam Kirby warned that services in Scotland had already been “cut to the bone,” with 40,000 jobs lost and at least another 8,000 more to go.
The “time for talk is over” as both the SNP and Scottish Labour are “standing on an anti-austerity platform and people vote for them on that basis,” he said. It was “time to put rhetoric into action.”
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
ROZ FOYER explains the significance and tradition of today’s St Andrew’s Day March and Rally
