UK union warns to continue mass strikes

UK’s leading trade union has warned the government that a crippling series of protests across the public sector would continue in the next four years.

Mark Serwotka, the leader of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), said that massive anti-cut protests would “grow incrementally”, warning that the demonstrations would go on until the country’s next general election in 2015.

Serwotka accused the coalition ministers of “living in a bubble of privilege all their lives.”

He also criticized Ed Miliband’s policies, saying the UK unions supported him in being the Labour leader, but his leadership was “disappointing.” He added that Miliband “is not confident or robust enough.”

UK’s leading unions have announced that around ten million people are to participate in a continuing wave of strikes against the government’s austerity measures. June 30 is planned to be the first day of the coming series of protests, claimed to become the biggest day of action since the 1926 general strike.

At the Unison’s annual conference in Manchester, about 2,000 delegates promised to back “service groups and sectors seeking to co-ordinate official national industrial action in defence of pensions.”

Defiant delegate Tony Phillips said, “This won’t be the miners’ strike; this won’t be the general strike of 1926 – this is a strike we are going to win.”

“I am a coal miner’s daughter and I will not stand idly by and watch someone steal our pensions,” Said Delegate Lillian Macer.