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Public Service Defence Campaign: Draft Budget

    Public Service Defence Campaign: Draft Budget

    16/12/2010

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    Dear Colleague

    Please find attached a copy of the NI Executive budget announcement made by the Finance Minister Sammy Wilson in the Assembly on Wednesday, 15 December 2010.  The document can also be downloaded at:- www.northernireland.gov.uk/website_-_draft_budget.pdf. 

    The budget is for a four year period and the tables in the document illustrate the reduction in actual expenditure that will require to be made by each NI Government Department.

    NIPSA will be giving further consideration to this budget and will be responding as part of the public consultation exercise. Branches should forward any comments they have on the budget to Karen Wright at NIPSA HQ: karen.wright@nipsa.org.uk.

    NIPSA will continue to campaign against any reductions in service and oppose attacks on public service employment, pay and terms and conditions of employment.

    Please ensure that your branch sends the appropriate number of representatives to the NIPSA branch representatives event to be held in the Kings Hall on Friday, 14 January 2011.  This event will provide an opportunity to consider the implications of this budget and to consider how best NIPSA can act to defend the interests of members across the public sector and the voluntary and community sectors.

    In addition the budget reinforces the importance of ensuring that the public is aware of the arguments against public service cutbacks.  This Friday, 17 December NIPSA branches will be distributing the new NIPSA leaflet which makes the case for increasing opposition to the UK Government’s austerity measures and their implementation in Northern Ireland by the NI Executive.  The activity on Friday is part of the European Trade Union Congress Day of Action across Europe against the austerity measures which are designed to make ordinary working people pay for a financial and economic crisis which was not of their making.

    Yours sincerely

    BRIAN CAMPFIELD

    General Secretary

     

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