Do UNISON members have anything to say about the cuts?

Sadly the predominant view I get is that everyone feels that it is not worth doing anything as they feel the council will just do what they want. This is not my view but it is exhausting trying to argue against it all the time.
We need to make this campaign much more positive. When one is arguing against such savage cuts, those looking on will say "what are the alternatives", and I don't feel the alternatives are being pushed nearly forcefully enough, either by the trade unions or our representatives in parliament. As well as Unison's efforts to push the council on early retirement and voluntary redundancy, we should all be urging the government to introduce (and encourage the global community to introduce) what is popularly known as a "Robin Hood Tax" (http://robinhoodtax.org/). This would be a tiny tax of about 0.05% on transactions like stocks, bonds, foreign currency and derivatives between banks, paid for by the banks, which could raise £250 billion a year globally, or £20 billion in the UK alone. This could be introduced, as well as a tax on excess profits and bonuses. We live in a morally bankrupt society when one individual can earn millions of pounds, so another proposal I would like to see introduced is that no person in an organisation should be paid more than ten times what the lowest paid receives. There has also been a government focus on benefit fraud (I have seen a figure saying this costs about £1 billion a year) but precious little from anyone about the much larger amounts (?£20 Billion +) lost through tax evasion and avoidance. These are all positive things we should be shouting from the rooftops.
I do feel that, if people are given a positive alternative to argue for (and see the money these measures could raise) it may just reinforce the great injustices they are being subjected to and encourage them that there is something to campaign for.

I am surprised that there have been no comments posted so far. I would thought that this would have been crammed full of comments and thoughts of what we can do.

The Authority wastes so much on trivial things and now they are intending to impose a 5% paycut?
The clearout should start at the top and then go down the structures. We must make sure that when Managers loose staff, Locations and how many their section, department has been reduced by, they should be re-evaluated.

Sell a couple of Cars along with the Registration plates

All Councillors should : Use the buses more, travel Standard Class, no payments from the coffers to subsidise Civic functions and duties.

No away day conferences use the facilities we have.

Cut PAY at Executive levels

There are many more things that they can do rather than make the Lower Paid staff poorer.

Should they wish to look at a 5% paycut this should only applied to Grades higher than Grade 7.

I too im surprised to see that no one has resonded to your comment Ray.
is it that no one cares about there jobs and there roles in this town,are we to just allow the council to impose all these cuts and attempt to change are terms and conditions without the slightest fight,what will it take for us to stand up and be counteded,if we allow these cuts to go a head theres no reason for the council to turn around next year and tell us that we still need to make cuts to are terms and conditions,we just simply cannot allow this to happen.
we need to say NO we will not allow this to happen.