Support for June 30th Strikes in Stafford

Socialist Party members in Stafford held a campaign stall in the town in support of the strikes.

Earlier in the day we visited the PCS picket line outside the local Jobcentre. We were informed that 50 PCS members were on strike and they were going down to Cannock to support fellow members then on to the rally in Birmingham. One copy of the Socialist was sold.

The campaign stall was very successful with 16 papers being sold and over £31 in fighting fund being raised!

Even though we only managed to get to one picket, union members were coming to our stall so we found out that PCS members at Stafford Prison and MoD Stafford were out as well as a good number of schools.

The response from the public was unanimously in support of the action with equal support for both teachers and PCS workers.

We spoke to some UNISON members who were very much in favour of their union undertaking similar action in the immediate future!