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NOV 30: Historic March in Edinburgh

By Tam Burke (Prospect member, in a personal capacity)
Friday, 02 December 2011
Tourists looking down from the Castle saw history being made below them as Johnston Terrace was jammed with clerks, cooks and cleaners, teachers, librarians, radiographers, nurses, lectures, bin men and women, jannies, curators, students, thousands more of good humoured but determined public sector workers and their bairns determined not to be “robbed of their pension”, as I was told by a First Davison Association (top management union) picket at the court. Unison NHS members in Canaan Lane when I joked they’d next bring the Government down , replied “We wish we could. Students stood with the Lectures outside the University Old College , while the Unison branch there supplied tea and coffee. About twenty Prospect and PCS ” members united on a colourful picket at the National Museum in Chambers Street before going off to take their place amongst the thousands who filled the Royal Mile down to rally by the Holyrood Palace and the Scottish Parliament.. Heads were high. Many people, as in my branch, were striking for the first time, but their enthusiasm to do something practical was obvious. Only 19 papers sold ,but there was not enough time to get round that huge crowd of ordinary and decent people, the from the 99% of society, out against the attacks from the rich 1%, It was a great day

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