Budget will lead to public sector jobs carnage - FT‏

The FT reports that ‘hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs look set to go as government departments other than health face their biggest and fastest spending reductions of modern times – a mighty 25 per cent reduction over four years’. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a27ee922-7dfb-11df-b357-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss

Save Our Services‏

Around 200 people gathered in Newcastle this afternoon to protest against the harshest budget in recent times. A protest including UNISON, UNITE, GMB, PCS, FBU, CWU, UCU and community groups set out an alternative agenda, and a plan of united action against these austerity measures.

Budget will create poverty across north-east England.‏

Public sector cuts 'war' claim. The Unison union claims public sector cuts announced in the Budget will create poverty across north-east England. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/england/tyne/10381795.stm See pictures at http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8754000/8754851.stm Kenny Bell, from UNISON, said the cuts would devastate the region where almost third of workers are employed in the public sector.

Indexation stealth attack on public sector pension Income‏

With one swish of his pen the millionaire Osborne reduces our income as public sector pensioners. How? By linking our pension income rises to the Consumer Price Index and not the Retail Price Index.

http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/06/cut-of-the-day-public-sector-pensions-and-cpi/

Nurses will not take this lying down - James Anthony‏

UNISON NEC member James Anthony asks “what have we done to deserve these attacks?” in an article on the Guardian’s comment is free website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/22/nurses-nhs-ringfenced?

UNISONActive Instant Reaction - A budget for the Rich by the Rich to keep them Rich

Note the headlines from today's Budget by the Tories and see if they vary in any way from the predictions offered last week by our own UNISON conference.

Dave Prentis re-elected as UNISON GS with emphatic 102,000 winning margin‏

What a way to celebrate UNISONActive's 1,000th post! After a 6 month long election campaign, Dave Prentis has been elected to serve a third term as UNISON General Secretary.

Dave Prentis re-elected as UNISON General Secretary

Dave Prentis has been re-elected as General Secretary of the UK’s largest public sector union. Voting in the ballot, released today was as follows:

Tackling tax avoidance by the rich would avoid any need for cuts

Tackling tax avoidance by the rich would avoid any need for cuts, Green Party leader Caroline Lucas writes in a letter to today's Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-energy-and-austerity-2006770.html

What strange creatures crawl on the net?‏

The internet is awash with unbeliveable nonsense about public sectorpensions, how has a crisis started by bankers ended up with it being blamed upon public sector pensions? Well the answer maybe found on the blog of a publically funded BBC journalist Robert Peston. Doing his duty for the cause of mass hysteria and mistruths about our pensions he claims that the recently announced Public Sector Pensions Commission's duty is to save the country from bankruptcy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/