{"id":9330,"date":"2016-07-20T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T08:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=9330"},"modified":"2016-07-20T15:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:49:11","slug":"march-for-public-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=9330","title":{"rendered":"March for public services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Saturday (July 23) people will be taking to the streets of Bromley to call on the Tory-led council to stop the cuts and privatisation of services.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Unite has organised the march to show council leaders that the people of Bromley oppose the cuts and the sell-off of libraries, schools and services for the elderly and disabled. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCouncil services in Bromley are under attack like never before,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Onay Kasab, Unite regional officer.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis coming Saturday the people of Bromley will send a message to their local councillors that they oppose the cuts and the sell-offs that have been forced on local services,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bromley council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to privatise all local services will cut core staff from 4,000 to just 300.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The council intends to hand six community libraries over to organisations using volunteers instead of paid professional staff. The other libraries \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for which tendering has already begun \u00e2\u20ac\u201c will be handed to a profit making company. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Libraries across the borough faced another week long wave of strikes which started last Saturday (July 16) and an all-out strike across all council services tomorrow (July 20).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Members voted by 87 per cent for strike action. Many council workers have already taken more than 30 days of strike action in the long running dispute, which began last year.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adult services, parks services and learning disabilities services have already been privatised. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bCouncil workers have joined forces with the people of Bromley against the council\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s demolition job,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 said Onay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe message is clear \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the workforce, backed by Unite and the people of Bromley are not going to give up the fight to stop the cuts and privatisation,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he added.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To join the march assemble at Norman Park, Hayes Lane, Bromley BR2 9EF for 11.00 this Saturday (July 23).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday (July 23) people will be taking to the streets of Bromley to call on the Tory-led council to stop the cuts and privatisation of services. \u00c2\u00a0 Unite has organised the march to show council leaders that the people of Bromley oppose the cuts and the sell-off of libraries, schools and services for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[277,461,148,128],"wps_subtitle":"Bromley residents and council workers oppose cuts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9331,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9330\/revisions\/9331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}