'Congress declares that further cuts in public expenditure concerning these [the public] services will be regarded as an intolerable attack on the living standards of working people and a fundamental breach of the Social Contract.' National and Local Government Officers Association.
'Congress is totally opposed to cuts in public exp enditure on social services. It declares its conviction that the fabric of the education, health and social services must not be regarded as affording a means for exercising economies.' Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions.
'Congress expresses firm opposition to any reduction in the level of social and public services and calls on the General Council and affiliated unions to resist any cuts in public expenditure which lower standards these services.
National Union of Public Employees restraint.' pay limit. 'We cannot solve our problems by deliberately allowing unemployment to rise.... The figure that we have already reached is far too high, and it must be brought down ....Unless the Government is seen to be tackling the problems of unemployment, the confidence of trade unionists in this policy (the £6 limit) will erode. Unemployment is not an optional extra on top of wage Len Murray speaking at the 1975 TUC, the day it approved the 26
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