PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said: “This spending review will throw a generation of people on the scrapheap. These cuts are a political choice, there is an alternative, not a penny needs to be cut, nor a single job lost.
“We are not all ‘in this together’. It is the poorest in society who will have to bear the brunt of a crisis that was not of their making, while the millionaires in the cabinet massively increase the gap between the haves and have nots. With the increase in retirement age to 66 and a £1.8 billion cut in public sector pensions many people will be forced to pay much more for less.”
Our alternative is attracting support from other trade unions and community groups and challenges the media perception of the need for cuts. It argues the government should be creating jobs, not cutting them, closing the £120 billion tax gap, introducing a Robin Hood Tax on banking speculation and investing in our futures.
