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Wednesday 29 September 2010

No to Austerity - European trade unions converge on Brussels today‏

Over 100,000 thousand trade unionists from over 30 countries will march in Brussels in a unified rejection of neo liberal austerity measures. A UK contingent will take part in the march including a delegation of UNISON young members. http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-18557-f0.cfm

TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: 'All across Europe governments have become obsessed with immediate deficit reduction and are embarking on cuts programmes of such magnitude that the fragile recovery of the continent's economies is threatened…if there was ever a case why severe cuts in spending are not the answer we need look no further than across the Irish Sea where the spectre of a double-dip recession is looming large, and where despite huge cuts in spending, Ireland faces another austerity budget, its fourth in two years.’