Campaigning for Public Services: NIPSA Backs Trade Union Rallies
Campaigning for Public Services: NIPSA Backs Trade Union Rallies
06/11/2009
Hundreds of NIPSA members joined the trade union rallies today across Northern Ireland.
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Hundreds of NIPSA members joined the trade union rallies being held today in Belfast, Derry and 8 other towns in Northern Ireland.
The demonstrations were organised by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) to demonstrate opposition to cuts in public services and for fair treatment of all workers.
Speaking at the Belfast rally NIPSA General Secretary John Corey and Chairperson of the ICTU’s Northern Ireland Committee rejected the Executive Ministers’ plans for public expenditure cuts in Northern Ireland. Mr Corey said:-
“There is no inevitability about public expenditure cuts. Executive Ministers can make £100 millions of funding available by:-
- Cutting the £10 millions being spent annually on private sector consultants.
- Stopping the £10s of millions being wasted on consultants trying to devise schemes to privatise our public services.
- Stop spending £millions on companies to come here, set up anti trade union workplaces with low wages, and then close down when they can find more profit elsewhere.”
Mr Corey also called for an end to the freeze on domestic rate increases and the capital value cap saying:-
“The Executive Ministers can make more money available by scrapping the domestic rates freeze and cap on capital values which has favoured the far better off in this society at the expense of working people.”
The NIPSA General Secretary also pledged that the trade unions would fight any attempt to introduce separate household water charges.
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