Great Britain: unions in the public sector are dreaming of coordinated action against the government’s planned budget cuts

This is all the more so now that public expenditure and public services in Britain will experience what are roundly acknowledged to be the biggest cuts in many generations. The cuts result from the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition seeking to reduce the government debt as a result of the previous public expenditure to try to stave off recession by the last Labour government.
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at they cannot do the same and some understandable envy as well. However, in the face of the planned drastic budget cuts, which are once again taking a blow at the civil service, unions are talking of coordinated resistence, since they can’t talk of a general strike. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire. (Ref. 100488)

This is all the more so now that public expenditure and public servi

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