Aug 2011 30

Stop the taxpayer funding of trade unions in Tameside8

This Saturday 3 September, members of the TPA team will be joining Liam BIllington, our coordinator in Tameside, Greater Manchester, for an action day. We will be meeting in the Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, at noon for a couple of hours of campaigning. We will be handing out TPA recruitment cards, and collecting signatures for a petition against the taxpayer funding of unions in Tameside.

To back-up our paper petition, today we have also launched an on-line petition.  Please sign it, and pass the link to your family, friends, and colleagues. We want to continue to send a message to Tameside Council and the government that it is unacceptable for our money to be spent funding trade union activities. In Tameside alone, trade unions cost council taxpayers almost £337,000 a year. This is money that could – and should – be spent on front-line services.

Liam is doing some great work in Tameside. Not only has he helped expose a 48% increase in taxpayer funding of unions in the last financial year, he has also exposed crazy schemes such as Tameside Council spending £5K of our money setting-up walking routes for staff, and thousands of pounds wasted on an iPhone app hardly anyone uses.

If you can join us on Saturday, please let me know, so I can look out for you. It will be great to see you, and you are more than welcome to join us later for lunch, and some liquid refreshment!

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  • john in cheshire

    Petition signed.

    • http://twitter.com/andrew_allison andrew_allison

      Thank you, John. 

  • DL

    Why not on the Government petition website?

    • http://twitter.com/mjhsinclair Matthew Sinclair

      That is for national policy and addressing central government.  It didn’t seem appropriate when we are dealing with a council.

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  • R Hibbert

    You go on about trade unions, yet the taxpayer pays£25,000 a year benefits to
    hate preacher Anjem Choudary ; do something about that!  

  • Curmudgeon

    So, what was the conclusion! How many signatures did you collect? Can we expect a report?
    How was the beer at Stalybridge Station?

    CURMUDGEON

  • Blob

    Interesting to note the billington used the opportunity to look “stylish” and not much else… when I was floating around there was no campaigning – they sat on steps and after 10 minutes i got bored of watching them do nothing and went about my business. Well done for doing nothing again guys