Powerful new alliance against austerity

Three of Europe’s largest unions, UNISON, Ver.di and CGIL, representing more than 5 million public sector workers, are meeting in London today to form a powerful new alliance against the damaging politics of austerity.
The unions are calling on national governments and international financial institutions to ditch austerity that has not only made the sovereign debt crisis worse, but has hit Europe’s people hard. Official figures out yesterday (3 May) revealed unemployment across the single currency zone to be at a record high. http://www.unison.org.uk/asppresspack/pressrelease_view.asp?id=2690