Southern Anti-Cuts Assembly – 8th October, Milestone House, Send

July 11, 2011
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Southern Anti-Cuts Assembly – 8th October, Milestone House, Send

Pre-registration for this event is absolutely vital – sign up for tickets now at http://anticutsassembly.eventbrite.com/ Save Our Services in Surrey, the anti-cuts alliance in Surrey, is organising a Southern Anti-Cuts Assembly to bring together anti-cuts campaigners, trade union members, community activists, students, and all those who want to help shape the direction of the anti-cuts movement in Surrey and in Southern England*. Click here to download a PDF flyer to distribute. Sessions planned for the day include Academy Schools • Communities need council libraries • The NHS at 63 • Rebuilding the trade union movement from the bottom up...

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Two strike rallies for the price as one as Surrey public sector workers took over Camberley on June 30th

July 4, 2011
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Two strike rallies for the price as one as Surrey public sector workers took over Camberley on June 30th

SOSiS Secretary Paul Couchman reports on the day Surrey public sector workers stood up in defence of their pensions. “Camberley has never seen anything like this before” said Ted Truscoe from the NUT as a human stream of mainly young people with balloons, flags and banners marched around the town centre on their way to a rally at Camberley Theatre. There were placards and banners from NUT, UCU, ATL, PCS and UNISON and the new Save Our Services in Surrey (SOSiS) banner. At least six UNISON activists (myself included) had taken the day off as annual leave or TOIL...

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Fighting the cuts isn’t free

July 4, 2011
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Fighting the cuts isn’t free

Please rush donations by cheque payable to “Save Our Services in Surrey” and post them to Save Our Services in Surrey, c/o Surrey County UNISON, Room G17, County Hall, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, KT1 2DN. Save Our Services in Surrey has been in existence now for nearly two years. We have fought back – alongside workers, trade unionists, young people, students, elderly people and service users – to defend Schools, Colleges, Fire Stations, Libraries, Youth Services, Hospitals, Social Services and many more. We have been successful in some campaigns and not in others – but we will keep organising and...

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Communities need council libraries: Join the Lobby!

June 29, 2011
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Communities need council libraries: Join the Lobby!

Join the lobby of the SCC Cabinet to save council libraries: Tuesday 26th July, 1pm, at County Hall, Penrhyn Road, Kingston. Click here to download distributable flyers (PDF). Representatives from user groups at Surrey’s threatened libraries held a ‘council of war’ last night and agreed unanimously to defend ALL our libraries against plans to close them or to get rid of professional staff. Alongside UNISON, they voted to send an open letter to the leader of the council, signed by user representatives at all the eleven threatened libraries and to lobby the council cabinet on 26th July. The Council’s...

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June 30th: Public Sector Workers Strike to Defend Pensions

June 27, 2011
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June 30th: Public Sector Workers Strike to Defend Pensions

Click here to download PDF flyer. Public sector trade unionists across Surrey are lining up with their fellow union members across the country to defend their pensions. As opinion polls demonstrate significant public support for union members, defying the likes of the self-proclaimed “Surrey Tax Action Group”, civil servants, teachers and lecturers, along with their supporters in Save Our Services in Surrey, will be descending upon Camberley to march and rally in defence of the right to a decent affordable pension, against the Government’s plan to use public sector pension scheme members to pay for the deficit caused by...

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