A LEADING trade union used its Bournemouth conference to press for a 24-hour general strike.
The Communication Workers Union (CWU) unanimously backed calls for the TUC to co-ordinate a nationwide walkout against ‘attacks’ on pay, pensions and services.
Delegates at the Bournemouth International Centre yesterday agreed to moves aimed at co-ordinating campaigns and strikes with other unions.
The conference, representing over 200,000 postal, telecoms and finance workers, voted unanimously to support calls for a general strike, which officials will now raise with the TUC. Paul Garroway from Oxford said leading members of the government did not use public services, adding that claims from ministers that everyone was ‘in this together’ were a ‘lie’.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls and CWU secretary Billy Hayes also addressed the conference.
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