Coventry rally to defend public services on Saturday 19 June
15 June 2010
Unite, the largest union in the country, is staging a rally in
Coventry on Saturday 19 June to protest at the threat to public
services in the West Midlands.
The rally will be held at Methodist Central Hall, Warwick Road,
Coventry between 12-4pm.
The rally was originally planned to support the youth and
community workers in their long-running dispute with the city
council over cuts to their particular service, but now has been
broadened out to embrace the multi-layered threats to the public
sector coming from the coalition government.
Unite said that recently 1,000 jobs in the public sector were
lost in one week in Coventry.
Unite national officer, community and youth workers, Doug
Nicholls, said: ”The rally now gives an opportunity for us all in
the unions, community organisations and the general public in the
West Midlands to protest at the threatened demolition of public
sector services.
”The alternative ways of reducing the deficit could include a
tax on bank transfers, chasing rich corporate and individual tax
avoiders, ending the use of management consultants, halting the
privatisation of the NHS, and early withdrawal of forces from
Afghanistan.“
ENDS
Media contacts: Doug Nicholls 07970 345 381 or Shaun Noble,
communications officer (third sector) 020 7420 8951 or 07768 693
940
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