More than 100 people joined the budget day protest in Leeds, with banners and flags from the PCS, Unison, NUT, CWU and UCU unions as well as the trades council, Stop the War and the Labour Representation Committee.
Dave Prentis, Unison’s general secretary, told the union’s national conference that the new government has no mandate for cuts. He said, "If this government picks a fight we will be fierce defenders of our members and the services they deliver. We will organise public meetings and street demonstrations."
The 1,600 members of the Unite, Unison, Bectu and GMB trade unions working for Culture and Sport Glasgow (CSG) struck successfully for the third time last weekend.
Paul Holmes, branch secretary of Kirklees Unison and left wing candidate in the union’s general secretary election, says that workers won’t just "sit and take" the cuts there.
Left wing candidate Paul Holmes is gathering support in the election for Unison union general secretary as ballot papers go out to its 1.2 million members.
The employment tribunal into the sacking of nurse and union activist Yunus Bakhsh has heard further evidence from Peter Chapman, the Unison union full-time officer originally assigned to Yunus’s case.
