The recent fair pay campaigns have resulted in defeat whilst current and future campaigns are also doomed to failure unless their is a change in attitude of those in the leadership of Unison.
Time & time again the membership are rallied into strike action to be followed by capitulation, often after a single day of strike action.
There is generally an acknowledgement that when it comes to fair pay there needs to be a coordinated campaign across all public service trade unions but it never transpires into sustained joint action.
In fact Unison cannot even coordinate its own Service Groups just look at Local Government, Health & the Police and Justice Service Groups - all recently campaigning for fair pay but all having to go it alone!
The goal of fair pay has to unite Unison Service Groups, unite Trade Unions & deliver a imaginative and long term strategy that will challenge our employers and politicians and make them realise they are in a fight they cannot win.
If we cannot deliver fair pay what is our relevance as negotiators?
This is our opportunity, right now, to elect a leadership that will deliver!
We need a campaign with bite!
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