Merseyside Right to Work was established in May of this year to give the local region a campaigning united group against the cuts which we knew were going to come with the election of the coalition government. Merseyside Right to Work has organised demonstrations outside Liverpool Town Hall on the day of the budget and public spending review announcements, and took 70 people to the Tory Party conference demonstration in Birmingham in October. Merseyside Right to Work works with and supports other anti cuts groups whilst also making links between the different struggles that everyone are facing.

Saturday 27 November 2010

Below is a statement released after last weeks South Sefton Trades Council meeting,

Hello everyone, last nights meeting made the Echo today – see
Of course we are campaigning against all the public service cuts, not just those in the council, but its good coverage nonetheless. The Champion newspaper have also said they will report on the meeting too.
What we agreed last night was to support the PCS planned demonstration at Bootle Strand. We had representatives from local branches of Unite (at least 2 branches), NASUWT, PCS, RMT and FBU (any others) and would expect those branches to actively support this demonstration, and would also request the Sefton Unison branch throws its weight in too. We are awaiting a date for this now.
We know of the planned closure of St Wilfrids and two library closures were mentioned last night, my suggestion is that we invite the people involved to speak at this demonstration too.
There was also strong support for Sefton TUC (the ‘trades council’) to play a co-ordinating role locally, which is what we exist to do. Local union branches can send delegates, who are expected to represent their own unions policies so we work very much on consensus, with a suggested programme of work from the national TUC.  Branches can delegate up to 10 delegates, the fee is £15 and send a cheque and delegates names to Sefton TUC c/c South Sefton Welfare Rights/UWC, Sally Eccleston Memorial Hall, Moss Lane, Litherland, L21 7NW. Obviously with a new influx of delegates the local trade union movement will be a stronger position to play the co-ordinating role that is expected of us here with the community.
Other suggestions we have had involve calling a meeting with the Labour councillors to support them to vote against council cuts, clearly they will be under a lot of pressure and will need backing to oppose this. Also we have one of only 6 Lib Dem MP’s in the North West within our borough, John Pugh in Southport, and his surgery may be a good place to lobby.
What does everybody else think?
Best wishes
Danny
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