There is a direct link between paying taxes and having services which all of us will need at some point in our lives. Think of it as the insurance policy of the "just in cases" life throws at us.
The ConDem Government will dismantle everything around us and probably still continue to tax us to the hilt so it can give the rich tax breaks or perks.
See attached link for how bad these cuts are going to get http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/17/tories-are-demolishing-the-nhs
Join UNISON, now is not the time to be silent. If you have a desire to be political maybe its also time to come home to the Labour Party.
Jackie
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Saturday, 17 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Overview Scrutiny Management Committee 15th July.
UNISON and GMB made statements to the OSM committee this evening and with a presentation on a best guess estimate as the final figures for income and grants still not known the officers explained as best they could.
We have to take what they are saying at the moment in good faith and some clarity around their reports, figures were not clear in the presentation, at this stage though my understanding of the figures laid out in the previous post are accumulative and the max potential gap in the Council Budget I am assured is a maximum of 71 million at the end of 2015.
The Public Sector jobs of 66,600 is the total number of workers employed in various public Bodies and it is this number that may be subjected to the 40% cuts. One would hope they will cut waste, efficiency savings before the need to look at the workforce for the those cuts.
The Council is very clearly saying things cannot remain the same and after the consultation period they would be able to give a clearer picture in November 2010.
They have a clear vision that jobs could be transferred to social enterprises, co-operatives, and charities. How this will ultimately save money without further reducing low wages, pensions terms and conditions of the workforce, I guess we will start to see the devil in the detail soon enough.
What is clear is that many Councillors quite rightly are worried about the effect in Bristol, and the jobs that will or will not surface, the income that will or will not be raised as a result of job losses versus jobs created and how that may further exacerbate an already tough place to be in due to the cuts expected from the new coalition Government. A small minority of Councillors were rude and dismissive to the trade unions and other Councillors and had very little if anything to say about opposing the Coalitions plans.
UNISON requested they all work together on what is best for Bristol and potentially sign up to a group response of 70 Councillors in asking for alternative ways of dealing with the deficit. We asked them to take back to their respective political parties the information we gave and ask them to approach their political leaderships for alternative strategies.
I think by the end of the meeting there was some consensus to obtain the right information, the impact of each decision, and the Leader of the Labour Party Helen Holland, fully backed by the other Labour Councillors present Mark Bradshaw, Martin Golding and Mark Brain and felt that some condemnation of the severity of the cuts and the slash and burn application needed to be challenged.
Some Liberal Democrat Councillors appeared to be uncomfortable with the Coalitions plans and UNISON thanks them for showing that concern.
Helen Holland was also forthright in her feelings that staff and the staff representatives were due consideration and respect that this would be difficult and worrying time for all the workers in Public Bodies across the city.
UNISON will at this stage keep all avenues of communication open to all Councillors to have a proactive dialogue/discussion about our members jobs, terms and conditions, future job security.
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Tories "NOT" all in it together.
If this don't make you mad with one rule for us the working people and one rule for them the Toffs in the Tory Party, what will as they slash and burn all you have ever taken for granted and will realise everything you hold dear.
Keep your hands off Our Public Services. Go tax the rich and have better policies for repaying the debt the rich caused in the first place.
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/07/no-frills-tory-council-votes-through-massive-pay-hikes/
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Keep your hands off Our Public Services. Go tax the rich and have better policies for repaying the debt the rich caused in the first place.
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/07/no-frills-tory-council-votes-through-massive-pay-hikes/
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A must read for anyone earning less than £40,000 a year and the affect of the budget cuts in Bristol.
There is a meeting called Overview Scrutiny Management on the 15th July in the evening see here for a copy of the Council report it discusses the impact of the cuts and this is an extract of the extent of the cuts
Working on a basis of a 25 per cent budget reduction to 2014/15 equating to 6.25% per annum over the next four years, if we were to continue to provide the same level of services we would have to make the following savings to balance our budget:
2011/12 - £26m
2012/13 - £40m
2013/14 - £56m
2014/15 - £71m
These are huge sums of money to be cut from services over the next 5 years and it will affect every man, woman and child in this city, 28% of jobs in Bristol are in a Public Sector area and many more in the private sector will depend on a Local Authority contract or grant. Evey single family will feel the effect of a pay cut as public Sector wages are frozen for two years, or a job loss (The Councils wording from their own report .The cuts in public sector funding may lead to a reduction of the 66,600 jobs in public administration, defence, education and health within Bristol, making up 28.8% of all jobs (Annual Business Inquiry, 2008). There may be relocations into Bristol from London, to offset job losses. There may also be opportunities for saving money through joint working on public sector asset management. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has said it will give us a list of government buildings). The few who may not be hit and everyone else will have their standard of living reduced by the VAT increase to 20%, Child Benefit frozen check this link out to see the full story of how your family will pay a hefty price indeed.
Many economists are saying this could set the recession back and the volume of unemployed people will hit every one with a business, because if the majority are suffering severe financial hard times or are unemployed then we won't be buying much of anything, this is a gamble with us as the guinea pigs and George Osbourne playing yet again with our family, our lives, our jobs, our pensions with no real concrete evidence all this will work, check out the gamble here. When times get tough, crime soars and at least Labour promised us safety by saying they would not cut the police, see here to see the first waves the Coalition are doing to the police forces. See what they are doing to the Health Service. Bristol like other Local Authorities will follow and our cupboards will be bear and our street unsafe, are hospitals decimated.. No worries however, because if the work dries up then the Coalition have offered (well at this stage) but knowing them it could well become mandatory or lose your benefits, if you live in Council accommodation they are offering to move you where the work is, kid you not see this link. Last but not least if you are an Older Person now living in the family home on your own and it happens to be a Council home, then they will consider moving you out, to let possibly the relocated family move in or just free up your home for someone else, this must be the single biggest insult the Conservative/Lib Dem Coalition could do to a frail elderly person who may have fought a war for the freedon of this Country. The latest craziness from the Coalition Government is to give the health money to the GP's who are not part of the Health Service, other strains on GP's having to do Medical Assessments for incapacity benefit, their patients on poorer wages, more unemployment creating more physical and mental ill-health, fit notes already being challenged by employers when GP's make reasonable adjustments, giving them the reduced budgets year on year to fund and choose health care for us, they are asking rather a lot of GP's, who are in essence private businesses, as they are not part of the NHS, also asking GP's to challenge patients self care, can see the GP becoming a very unpopular person in our communities placing all health staff in surgeries in a very volatile environment.
When you put all these things things together and you start to see the very true stark picture these evil Conservative and Liberal Democrat millionaires are bringing to you and yours as soon as they can, then we need to collectively get involved in politics, shape the Labour Party for us the working people and if you think that doesn't mean you before you click off read this as if you earn less than 40, 000 per year you are going to get stung by the Coalition.
The worse thing of all is this could all be avoided if the Coalition took steps to recover the missing 120 billion of unpaid taxes normally by the likes of Lord Ashcroft and the millionaire Coalition Cabinet members
Get involved, get heard, come to the next Labour Branch meeting if you are in a trade union you do not pay so much to be a Labour Party member, but this party and your family needs you to be strong and to start fighting back. It needs you to shape a Labour Party that suits us, the ones earning less than 40,000 a year.
Working on a basis of a 25 per cent budget reduction to 2014/15 equating to 6.25% per annum over the next four years, if we were to continue to provide the same level of services we would have to make the following savings to balance our budget:
2011/12 - £26m
2012/13 - £40m
2013/14 - £56m
2014/15 - £71m
These are huge sums of money to be cut from services over the next 5 years and it will affect every man, woman and child in this city, 28% of jobs in Bristol are in a Public Sector area and many more in the private sector will depend on a Local Authority contract or grant. Evey single family will feel the effect of a pay cut as public Sector wages are frozen for two years, or a job loss (The Councils wording from their own report .The cuts in public sector funding may lead to a reduction of the 66,600 jobs in public administration, defence, education and health within Bristol, making up 28.8% of all jobs (Annual Business Inquiry, 2008). There may be relocations into Bristol from London, to offset job losses. There may also be opportunities for saving money through joint working on public sector asset management. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has said it will give us a list of government buildings). The few who may not be hit and everyone else will have their standard of living reduced by the VAT increase to 20%, Child Benefit frozen check this link out to see the full story of how your family will pay a hefty price indeed.
Many economists are saying this could set the recession back and the volume of unemployed people will hit every one with a business, because if the majority are suffering severe financial hard times or are unemployed then we won't be buying much of anything, this is a gamble with us as the guinea pigs and George Osbourne playing yet again with our family, our lives, our jobs, our pensions with no real concrete evidence all this will work, check out the gamble here. When times get tough, crime soars and at least Labour promised us safety by saying they would not cut the police, see here to see the first waves the Coalition are doing to the police forces. See what they are doing to the Health Service. Bristol like other Local Authorities will follow and our cupboards will be bear and our street unsafe, are hospitals decimated.. No worries however, because if the work dries up then the Coalition have offered (well at this stage) but knowing them it could well become mandatory or lose your benefits, if you live in Council accommodation they are offering to move you where the work is, kid you not see this link. Last but not least if you are an Older Person now living in the family home on your own and it happens to be a Council home, then they will consider moving you out, to let possibly the relocated family move in or just free up your home for someone else, this must be the single biggest insult the Conservative/Lib Dem Coalition could do to a frail elderly person who may have fought a war for the freedon of this Country. The latest craziness from the Coalition Government is to give the health money to the GP's who are not part of the Health Service, other strains on GP's having to do Medical Assessments for incapacity benefit, their patients on poorer wages, more unemployment creating more physical and mental ill-health, fit notes already being challenged by employers when GP's make reasonable adjustments, giving them the reduced budgets year on year to fund and choose health care for us, they are asking rather a lot of GP's, who are in essence private businesses, as they are not part of the NHS, also asking GP's to challenge patients self care, can see the GP becoming a very unpopular person in our communities placing all health staff in surgeries in a very volatile environment.
When you put all these things things together and you start to see the very true stark picture these evil Conservative and Liberal Democrat millionaires are bringing to you and yours as soon as they can, then we need to collectively get involved in politics, shape the Labour Party for us the working people and if you think that doesn't mean you before you click off read this as if you earn less than 40, 000 per year you are going to get stung by the Coalition.
The worse thing of all is this could all be avoided if the Coalition took steps to recover the missing 120 billion of unpaid taxes normally by the likes of Lord Ashcroft and the millionaire Coalition Cabinet members
Get involved, get heard, come to the next Labour Branch meeting if you are in a trade union you do not pay so much to be a Labour Party member, but this party and your family needs you to be strong and to start fighting back. It needs you to shape a Labour Party that suits us, the ones earning less than 40,000 a year.
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