Please note the next meeting of Plymouth Trades Union Council will be held on Tuesday 3rd January 2012 at 171 Armada Way 7pm  - you can park free on the roof of  Sainsburys car park opposite (the underneath car park closes at 9pm, so don’t go there). The venue has had to be changed due to us being unable to use the Thompsons Offices any more because of a Unite meeting. Future meetings of PTUC will be at 171 unless another trade union can offer free premises.

We face a critical and deeply disturbing situation in 2012. There is no more “business as usual”.

On 1^st December, we were collectively celebrating a successful mass strike. We’d achieved superb working unity across 28 unions. We had massive public support, with people increasingly glad to see anyone fighting against a vicious Tory government. We had significant and growing support from private sector workers – for the same reasons. We got the government rattled.

November 30th was a fantastic day for the working class in Britain. There have been times in the last year when it seemed that we were lagging behind workers in countries like France, Italy, Spain and especially Greece as they fought back against the cuts agenda that seeks to make us pay for the bankers and bosses crisis. But N30 changed that.

Across the public sector millions struck, tens of thousands picketed and around 500,000 demonstrated in more than 1000 demonstrations in towns and cities throughout Britain.

In Plymouth thousands marched, with the police estimating 2,500. 14 different trades unions were united in action - surely unprecedented in our city, and joined together to organise events through the day.

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