An historic banner created for trades unions in Thanet will take to see action again this Saturday (March 26h) in a national march against cuts to public services and public sector jobs. The banner was designed for Thanet Trades Union Council in the 1970s by an artist based in Broadstairs.
After the Thanet TUC ceased operation, the banner was thought lost. But now the group, which promotes links between trade unions in Thanet, has been revived and the banner has been discovered, dusted down and got ready to go on the big march.
Filiz McNamara, a retired health worker living in Broadstairs, said she will be proud to walk behind the banner.
“It is an impressive piece of work, and will certainly make an impact. People from Thanet, whether they are trade unionists or not, should all feel good to walk behind this banner. It’s great news that the banner has been found and will be with us on the march.”
Filiz, a member of the Anti Cuts Thanet group, believes people across Thanet should come and join the march. She said: “The government cuts are going to hit the poorest parts of the country worst, so Thanet is going to be particularly badly affected.
“People working for the public sector are going to lose their jobs, but important public services are going to be lost or cut back
Anyone interested in getting involved in fighting the cuts can contact ACT at anticutsthanet@gmail.com or join the Anti Cuts Thanet Facebook group.
Perhaps said banner might more appropriately carry a picture of a dinosaur clutching a benefits cheque.
ReplyDeleteWell said anon 05.58. Who wants to go back to the days when the trades unions ruled the roost and brought the country to its knees. That's what Margaret Thatcher had to put it right - much like the government has to do so now.
ReplyDeleteThe symbol of a flaming torch seems fitting for the arson capital of southern England. This on the day that we learned KCC has £100m in reserve which it refuses to dip into to prevent cuts in services. TDC and the unions want ever expanding bureaucracy managing ever more poor "clients" supplied by the London Boroughs. We cannot sustain the communist levels of public sector employees. We need someone to tell these protestors that the public sector does not generate wealth. It is entirely funded by taxes on the private sector, worryingly less than 50% of our economy. We need businesses, not council busibodies and facilitating bullshitters. County and district councils are full of venal hogs in the trough. They are crooks, investing our taxes in things like Icelandic banks, consultancies and non jobs. Now they are throwing their toys out of the pram, deliberately hurting the poorest when all the time there is a Strategic Reserve in the county which could easily cover the funding shortfall from central government.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was the bankers brought us to our knees this time, and world recession, and expensive wars, not the trade unions.
ReplyDeleteWell you thought wrong, Sunshine, it was Gord the Terrible.
ReplyDeleteHalf a million people on the march!
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