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07/07/2017
Union Demands Financial Fairness For North East
General Secretary of Unite the union Len McCluskey will call for the same deal for the North East of England as for Northern Ireland, when he addresses the Durham Miners' Gala.
He will condemn the government for "bunging" £1 billion to the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, in order to cling to power, while still insisting there is no more money for schools, housing, sprinklers in tower blocks, the NHS or to lift the public sector pay cap.
He will say: "Unite is the biggest union in Northern Ireland and I’m pleased for our members that there will be more money for their communities and services.
"But if the government can find money to invest in Northern Ireland, it must be found for all our nations and all our regions.
"A billion pounds would go a long way to helping regenerate industries here in the North East. It would help fill the gaping hole left when the Tories let a world-class plant at Redcar close its doors, throwing 2,000 skilled men and women out of work.
"So I demand the same deal for the North East as for Northern Ireland. Theresa May, you have saved you own skin with taxpayers' cash but there are far worthier causes for our public money right here in the North East."
(CD)
He will condemn the government for "bunging" £1 billion to the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, in order to cling to power, while still insisting there is no more money for schools, housing, sprinklers in tower blocks, the NHS or to lift the public sector pay cap.
He will say: "Unite is the biggest union in Northern Ireland and I’m pleased for our members that there will be more money for their communities and services.
"But if the government can find money to invest in Northern Ireland, it must be found for all our nations and all our regions.
"A billion pounds would go a long way to helping regenerate industries here in the North East. It would help fill the gaping hole left when the Tories let a world-class plant at Redcar close its doors, throwing 2,000 skilled men and women out of work.
"So I demand the same deal for the North East as for Northern Ireland. Theresa May, you have saved you own skin with taxpayers' cash but there are far worthier causes for our public money right here in the North East."
(CD)
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