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TRADE unionists from Unite, Unison, GMB and EIS stood shoulder to shoulder with housing and community campaigners today, united in opposition to cuts to Edinburgh City Council.
Anti-cuts protesters converged on the city chambers to demand a better deal from the SNP-Green Scottish government, as councillors prepared to meet and agree how to fill a £70 million black hole in the city’s finances.
City of Edinburgh Unite branch convener Graham Smith told the Star: “Council workers make up one of the biggest industrial sectors in Scotland and they have suffered 15 years of real-terms cuts.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says