Giant Valentines cards love public services

Nottinghamshire trades council campaigners
with their Valentines Day cards

On Saturday 12 February trade unionists and service users brought giant valentines cards to Nottingham's Old Market Square to say 'We love our public Services and we'll never let them go'.

Lilian Greenwood joined members of the CWU, FBU, UNISON, PCS and student from Trent University who were campaigning for a Robin Hood Tax on the banks. Lilian said: “I am pleased to be joining with the Notts Trades Council to stand up for our public services. The Tory led Government’s cuts are disproportionate and unfairly target some of the most deprived communities.
"Their attack on our city, cutting spending too far and too fast, will result in devastating job losses across our public services and voluntary sector. George Osborne’s plans will wreck the services people value and rely upon and risk pushing the economy back into recession, or leaving us with years of low growth and high unemployment"

Sign the Valentine card to save Public Services!

Deep down, we all know that our public services are an essential part of our civilised society. Our schools, libraries, postal and fire services are an important element of our lives. We would be - indeed are very likely to be - far poorer as a society when the axe falls this year and these services start to disappear or are spread thinner. There are many campaign groups and trade unions campaigning on a local level to save jobs and services and one of our trades councils has come up with an imaginative way of getting the message across. Nottinghamshire Trades Council will be inviting the public to sign a public services Valentine card this Saturday in Nottingham's Market Square. So, if you want to add your name to the campaign for jobs and services you can visit the Square and sign the card between 1.00 p.m. and 3.p.m. These are to be delivered to venues affected by cuts on Monday 14th February - to show services under threat that they are indeed, close to our hearts.