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- On Monday 20th January 2014 from 3.00p.m. Hove Town Hall there is a lobby arranged for this coming the Adult Care and Health Committee at Hove Town Hall. Proposals on services within Adult Care and Health regarding outsourcing of two services (Integrated Community Equipment Store) and New Larchwood (home care support staff who care for and support residents within assisted housing for elderly) will be heard by the committee.
Both services are relatively small in cost and the savings being suggested pretty minimal. However, those working in both of these services are relatively low paid and very committed to ensuring the service is retained in house so please make it down if you can. - Solidarity with the Firefighters on Wednesday 13th November 2013: taking strike action between 10 am and 2 pm following the Government’s decision to worsen their proposals on Firefighters pensions. The FBU General Secretary said: “Our members enter burning buildings for a living, and will not be intimidated by the government’s decision to worsen their proposals. This latest attack will simply harden the resolve of firefighters. Ministers continue to ignore the professional, evidence-based case firefighters have presented over the past three years and refuse to establish an affordable occupational pension scheme which reflects the occupation of fire fighting. There seems to be little or no understanding of what our members actually do or the standards they are required to meet.” Go to the West Sussex FBU sitehttp://www.fbu.org.uk/archives/8270 or the East Sussex FBU sitehttp://eastsussexfbu.com/national-issues/pensions/44-fbu-response-to-cfo-pension-comments for details of the dispute and the campaign. Sussex Firefighters showed their solidarity with Sussex teachers on their one day strike last month and for the Defend the NHS campaign in Sussex. It’s now time for us all to show our solidarity with the Firefighters and their campaign. Join up the resistance to austerity and attacks on pensions, wages and benefits. Send messages of support to your nearest fire station and visit the picket lines on Wednesday.
The third STUN bulletin – due at the end of this week – will carry a report on the Firefighters action. Look out for it.
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