Election battle is on, Unite chooses Labour
6th May 2010
A message to Unite members
The election battle is now on for Thursday May 6th. In just 30
days you can help decide yours, your union’s and your country’s
future. It’s the most important election since 1997. It is a choice
between Labour and the Conservatives – a choice between action to
lock in the recovery and benefit the many or tax breaks for the
rich few and cuts for the rest of us.
Over recent months Unite members have told us about their
election issues. Job security, the economy, crime, immigration,
housing and the NHS are high up on the list.
Over the next 30 days you’ll be bombarded with politicians’
promises on all these issues. So, it’s worth comparing the Labour
and Conservative approaches:
| The
Issues |
|
With Labour:
|
|
Under the
Tories: |
| Job
security |
|
Action to cut unemployment lock in the
recovery, invest in jobs and skills |
|
Cuts which
will put a million public sector jobs and tens of thousands in the
private sector at risk |
| |
|
|
|
|
| The economy |
|
Action to support jobs
and businesses, keep people in their homes and pay off public debt
through growth and fairer taxes |
|
Cuts which put
the recovery at risk but unfair, unwarranted tax breaks for the
rich |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Crime |
|
Action to support local
policing has seen crime fall |
|
Record high
levels of crime
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Immigration |
|
Action to set in place
controls and now falling immigration |
|
No systems in
place when they were in power and no credible plans for the
future |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Housing |
|
Action and £7.5bn
investment for Council housing |
|
Cuts agenda and
undermining Council housing |
| |
|
|
|
|
| The NHS |
|
Action to continue
record levels of investment, cancer patients’ guarantee |
|
Scrap the cancer
guarantee and spending cuts likely to impact on waiting times |
The next 30 days is decision time. On each and every issue raised
by Unite members we believe it is Labour that has the best plans
for the future – yours and your union’s future. That’s why we’re
asking you to back your union and back Labour on Thursday May
6th.
Many thanks for your support as a Unite member.
Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley, joint general
secretaries
PS. You can register your support for Labour at www.Unite4Labour.org and receive
regular updates about the election and how you can get
involved.
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