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Solidarity MSPs Join PCS on Picket Lines |
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Solidarity Co-Convenors Rosemary Byrne and Tommy Sheridan are spending the day on the picket lines in support of the national strike by members of the PCS. Tommy Sheridan was at the Glasgow Passport office this morning and will be at other pickets as the day progresses standing with Solidarity members and PCS members against the cuts and privatisation agenda of the Blair/Brown Government. The Glasgow Solidarity MSP said:
"Solidarity are 100% behind the PCS members in their struggle. Gordon Brown announced 100,000 job cuts in parliament without any talks with staff or unions. It was a bidding war with the tories to see who could sack the most people, a disgrace."
South of Scotland Solidarity MSP Rosemary Byrne is joining workers at job centres and tax offices in Irvine and across Ayrshire. She called on the public to get behind the PCS:
"These are people who deliver the services many of us rely on, social security, pensions, tax credits, job centres. Their jobs are being privatised and their pay and conditions changed without any negotiations. I urge the public to support the workers today and get behind their campaign for better public services, not privatised public services."
Both Solidarity MSPs will then join a march and rally of PCS members and supporters in Glasgow. PCS President, and Solidarity member, Janice Godrich will speak at the Glasgow event. In Dundee, Danny Williamson of the PCS, also a Solidarity member, will address a rally at the City Halls.
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