Edinburgh Budget Day Protest
Edinburgh Support Workers' Action Network (SWAN) | 20.06.2010 16:32 | Health | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements
SAVE OUR PUBLIC SERVICES
DEFEND JOBS - MAKE THE BANKERS PAY
Demo backed by;
Edinburgh Trade Union Council, Fire Brigades Union Scotland, PCS Scotland. Unite Voluntary Sector Branch, Unite Scottish Housing Branch, Communication Workers No.2 Branch, Industrial Workers of the World Edinburgh Branch, Right to Work Campaign, Edinburgh Support Workers' Action Network (SWAN), Positive Action in Housing, Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty, Save Our Homecare Services, Anarchist Federation Edinburgh Branch, Edinburgh Stop the War Group.The new Tory-Lib Dem Coalition government is preparing to unleash a savage attack on public services. The emergency budget on the 22nd of June will contain unprecedented cuts to the services that people need and deserve.
In Edinburgh a group of trade union representatives, community activists, campaign groups and student activists have come together to build for a Day of Action ”against the cuts”. A rally and march will take place in Edinburgh on Tuesday 22nd June (the day the emergency budget is announced).
The event in Edinburgh against the cuts will coincide with similar rallies in Glasgow, Dundee & Aberdeen as well as across most major cities throughout the rest of the UK.
The rally will gather at 6pm at the Mound, and march to Charlotte square.
The rally and march in Edinburgh has been officially called by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) Scotland, Edinburgh Trade Union Council and Edinburgh Right to Work campaign.
Edinburgh Support Workers' Action Network (SWAN)
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