Notes from Tameside archives from WCML

 

Tameside notes from WCML Archive

“I definitely think we have to escalate the strike, get all the other workers out in the council, social services etc… Because what they’re trying to do is privatise all the public services.” – Pauline Carmody Shop Steward

Link this to the privatisation of public services now, this is still happening

“We feel very angry over the privatisation which has seen our wages cut after no increase for five years” – Gwen Smithson Night Care Worker

Link and research NHS 1% payrise – fines for protesting £10,000 which the Socialist party managed to raise.

Article 2 – TAMESIDE CARE WORKERS – SACKED BUT THE FIGHT GOES ON

·        400 tameside care workers – on strike for three months in protest of wages being cut

·        Labour council – sacked all the strikers as they refused to accept the cut and sign new contracts of cuts up to £2.08

·        Noel Pine – speech Tameside UNISON branch

·        New contracts give the employer three months notice if you want to leave

·        Any additional hours worked will be paid at a lower rate

·        Owned by Tameside Community Care Trust – Six Trustees which the labour council own a ‘golden share’

·        Uses tax payers money

·        Board members on £60,000 workers skilled workers on £2.80 an hour

·        ‘born in poverty, work in poverty, die in poverty.’

 

Article 3 –

200 workers sacked 1,000 people marched from Stalybridge to Ashton under – Lyne

‘Low Pay, No Way!’

‘What do we want? A decent wage! When do we want it? Now!’

‘Tony Blair, here us say Tameside workers are here to stay!’

Janet Farrar Tameside Unison Strike Committee member “I’ve worked at SunnySide for 14 years. I can’t say how shocked and angry I was when I received my P45 on Thursday…. We are going back to Victorian times when people had no rights.”

“The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.”