CIPFA Conference 2010

Your web story, ‘Union members might accept job losses in return for more say’, reports less than 10% of my speech to the CIPFA conference – and so takes the little mentioned entirely out of context. It creates the impression that Unison is prepared to negotiate away our members’ jobs in return for vague promises about in-house service delivery and genuine engagement. We most certainly are not. As you reported, I made my view very clear – that every redundancy is a personal tragedy. We will fight to defend every job cut Read more...