{"id":5060,"date":"2016-06-16T14:52:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T13:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/?p=5060"},"modified":"2016-06-16T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T14:08:55","slug":"standing-up-to-the-easycouncil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/2016\/06\/16\/standing-up-to-the-easycouncil\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing up to the \u201ceasycouncil\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Standing up to the \u201ceasycouncil\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n
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“The spirit shown by our library workers today is a tremendous example to us all \u2013 and we will stand by them as they fight for their jobs.”<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Dave Prentis, <\/strong><\/div>\n
UNISON General Secretary<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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The assault on our public services in recent years has fallen hardest on local government \u2013 with libraries particularly under fire.<\/p>\n

And there are few areas that have suffered greater attacks from their local authority than Barnet.<\/p>\n

“You have got our full support and if you need any help just let us know” \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mr Prentis speaking to the #BarnetStrikers<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I was proud to be on the picket line alongside library workers today, taking the fight to the so-called Tory \u201ceasycouncil\u201d and showing local people how severe and damaging the cuts to their local services really are.<\/p>\n

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I spoke with activists Fiona Turnbull and Hugh Jordan (Barnet UNISON\u2019s libraries convenor) about the sheer scale of job losses and service cuts being inflicted on an already bare bones service. At Chipping Barnet (where we met this morning) the library will lose 33 staff hours (down from 56.5 hours at present). Other libraries will lose more than half of their size and be reduced to volunteer only provision.<\/p>\n

Services lost or weakened. Jobs cuts. And those in the community who need them most left to suffer.<\/p>\n

“Our members in Barnet have been at the sharp end, with the council outsourcing anything it can. The spirit shown by our library workers today is a tremendous example to us all \u2013 and we will stand by them as they fight for their jobs.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dave Prentis, <\/strong><\/p>\n

UNISON General Secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n

unison – standing-up-to-the-easycouncil<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

#BarnetStrikers<\/strong><\/p>\n

#SaveBarnetLibraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Standing up to the \u201ceasycouncil\u201d “The spirit shown by our library workers today is a tremendous example to us all \u2013 and we will stand by them as they fight for their jobs.” Dave Prentis, UNISON General Secretary The assault on our public services in recent years has fallen hardest on local government \u2013 with libraries particularly under fire. And<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,50,51,59,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-local","category-national","category-solidarity","category-unison-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5060\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.barnetunison.me.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}