Thousands of workers head to Birmingham for national march for jobs
24th April 2009
WHEN: from 11am,
Saturday, 16th May, 2009
WHERE: Birmingham
City Centre
WHO: Tony Woodley
and Derek Simpson, Unite joint general secretaries, Brendan Barber,
TUC, plus leading figures from the world of business and politics,
including former trade minister and first time marcher Digby Jones,
alongside thousands of workers from across the UK.
National march for jobs
As unemployment rises across the UK and key sectors of the
economy are battered by the recession, Unite, the UK’s biggest
union, is to bring thousands of people from across the country to
march in defence of their jobs.
The national march for jobs on Saturday, May 16th, 2009 through
central Birmingham will see workers from every sector of the
economy stand together to send a message to the government that
protecting jobs must be the number one priority.
Unite is pressing for the government to:
- implement a short-time working subsidy to keep people in work
and off the dole
- more sizeable and speedy action to support UK
manufacturing
- more help for business from the state-aided
- greater protection for UK workers from redundancy.
ENDS
Unite is being contacted by workers from across the country, and
may have case studies who are willing to speak to the media.
For further information please email Pauline Doyle in the Unite
press office on Pauline.doyle@unitetheunion.org
To see what the Unite for Jobs demands are or for information on
the march visit: http://action.unitetheunion.org
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