Now -read the book!

Here is a link to my memoirs which, if you are a glutton for punishment, you can purchase online at https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/an-obscure-footnote-in-trade-union-history.
Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. (William Morris - A Dream of John Ball)

Monday, March 01, 2010

Local government workers face decimation - there is an alternative

Today's news confirms what local government branches are being told by our employers about the likely scale of coming cutbacks - that one in ten local government workers face the axe (http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/sdOt9O-JTjCGCN7UW24NA7A/view.m?id=337539&tid=120787&cat=UK_news).



This means that local government jobs do indeed face decimation - albeit the means of removing the "one in ten" will be less brutal than that of those who originated the use of the term (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(Roman_army).



Ever helpful, the Government have issued local authorities with a checklist of "radical efficiency reforms" to "protect frontline services" - it would make more sense if the Government would itself adopt the checklist which Unison offered last year (http://www.unison.org.uk/asppresspack/pressrelease_view.asp?id=1670) and raise and collect sufficient taxes to pay for the public services we need.

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