SSP Research, Policy & Media Unit
Press Release: 22/10/04
Sheridan: PCS strikers will get our help, assistance and solidarity
Scottish Socialist Party national convenor Tommy Sheridan tonight pledged the full support of the SSP and its parliamentary representatives to the civil service union PCS after its members voted to strike in defence of jobs.
PCS union members voted two to one in favour of a strike on November 5th against government plans to cut 100,000 jobs.
Tommy said;
“Yet again trade unionists are under attack from a Labour government, a Labour government now intent on throwing 100,000 PCS union members on the dole.
“In decades past it would have been Labour Party members organising solidarity with the strikers but now that task will be taken up by Scottish Socialist Party members and our parliamentary representatives.
“We will be doing everything we can to organise help, assistance and solidarity for these workers who deliver vital services and who are being treated outrageously by the new Thatcherites in the Treasury.
“Make no mistake about it, if Gordon Brown thinks he can treat these workers in the same way that Margaret Thatcher treated the miners he has got another thing coming.”
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