Show your support for the strike - by visiting local pickets lines!

Rugby college staff will be having picket Tomorrow  morning (Wednesday) and we expect other public sector workers to be picketing as well - please show your support.

  RUGBY AGAINST THE CUTS

              PO Box 4123 Rugby CV21 9BJ

             http://rugbyagainstthecuts.blogspot.com

             rugbyagainstthecuts@googlemail.com

ALL OUT ON NOVEMBER 30^th IN SUPPORT OF PENSIONS, JOBS AND OUR SERVICES!

The attack on pensions is yet another attempt to cut public spending.  The 3% increase in pension contributions is to pay back the country’s deficit not to fund pensions. The attack on pensions is yet another ideological attack on workers and our public services. The ConDems are happy to see the rich receiving bumper pay rises and massive pensions.  The rich created a budget deficit and then expect the workers to pick up the tab!

The economic crisis was not caused by workers in the public or private sector

• Public sector workers are being asked to pay an extra £3 billion per year in pension contributions: the Government cancelled the banker’s bonus tax that raised almost the same amount
• The Con Dem government wants to make people pay more and work longer for less pay and smaller pensions
• Ministers are imposing unfair changes without meaningful negotiation
• Most public sector workers are modestly or low paid and public sector pay has been frozen despite inflation of 5%

SUPPORT PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS ON NOVEMBER 30^th

* Early morning workplace pickets – see http://rugbyagainstthecuts.blogspot.com/

* 10.15am Cathedral Steps, Priory Street Coventry March/Rally

* 12 noon TUC March through Birmingham - Assemble Lionel

                St/Livery St car park

* 1.30pm Rally with TUC Gen Sec Brendan Barber and others

               National Indoor Arena, Birmingham

* 7.30pm NSSN Public Meeting to reflect on the day ‘Building on

              Nov 30’ Methodist Central Hall, Coventry

PUBLIC SPENDING CUTS ARE NOT NEEDED OR WANTED

Governments throughout the world are trying to make the poor pay for the global economic crisis.  The Con/Dem Coalition is pushing through massive cuts to public services of between 25% and 40%, coupled with horrendous attacks on those unable to work, with little or no opposition from Labour.  It has been estimated that the poor will be 10% worse off, and the wealthy just 3%, as a result

The cuts, locally and nationally, will mean

• Closure of the Youth Service across Warwickshire
• Fewer buses, and higher fares on public transport
• Closures of fire stations, as we have already seen in Warwickshire
• Further privatisation, meaning we have to pay for our services
• Fewer doctors, nurses, teachers and fire fighters
• Wage cuts for those who remain in work
• Huge rise in unemployment as public sector workers are sacrificed
• Thousands being forced off benefits although no new jobs exist

THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO REMOVE THE DEBT

·         The banks could repay the £850 billion given to them by the

Government to bail them out - £850 billion that could be spent on

public services

·         There could be a 5% wealth tax on the richest 10% which, alone,

would resolve the debt

·         There is £120 billion per year of unpaid tax that the rich avoid

            paying or evade – this could be reclaimed immediately

·         The banks and building societies, which continue to make

         massive profits, could be nationalised and run by the

         people for the people, with profits used to maintain and

improve our public services

WHY SHOULD WORKERS AND THE POOR PAY FOR A CRISIS THEY DID NOT CREATE?

Rugby Against the Cuts meets on the 2^nd Thursday of each month, 7.30pm, The Three Horse Shoes, Sheep St