Government’s “false timetables” and “final offers” lead to growing frustration and anger
Firstly, congratulations on the fantastic show of determination, confidence and increasing anger by hundreds of thousands of public sector workers ‐ supported by a growing alliance of our youth, pensioners and anti cuts groups ‐ in cities and towns across our nations on 30 November. It was a day for our trade union movement to stand united and proud and we did!
Secondly, you will have read over the past few days of ‘deals’ being reached between government and the joint unions over the future the schemes affecting millions of public sector workers. This is simply not true. Despite the rhetoric from government ministers, no ‘deals’ have been concluded in any of the schemes.
The position of your union, Unite, is very clear. We have approached discussions in each of the three schemes in which we have members; Civil Service, Health and Local Authorities, in a professional and committed way in order to explore every option in an attempt to convince government that its attack on public service workers is unjust and unacceptable.
In return, government has imposed changes, failed to negotiate in good faith, refused to provide necessary information and forced deadlines and timetables into very complex and difficult negotiations that are simply unacceptable.
In each scheme various solutions have been sought to address our concerns, this update gives a brief summary of Unites position in respect of each scheme.
