Joint trade union action

Conference notes that since 2008, the banks have been bailed out with £850 billion of
public money plunging the UK into financial strife while the government has aimed to
recoup that money by cutting back on public spending right across the public sector.

Despite government claims that Britain is emerging from the crisis, the reality is that
cuts and austerity for the vast majority of people are continuing unabated and will not
subside for years to come. As a result of this, FBU members and others throughout
the public sector have, in recent years suffered attacks on our pensions, assaults on
our conditions and a pay cut in real terms. Conference believes that the pay,
conditions and pensions of our Members and other public sector employees are
being slashed as part of a devious and sustained wider right wing attack on the public
sector in the UK.

Conference further believes that the severity of these attacks against our members
requires sustained and radical action to be built on by the trade union movement if we
are to defeat austerity which is being imposed on us by Tory ideology. These attacks
against FBU Members cannot be separated from similar attacks against teachers,
nurses, the unemployed, the disabled, the welfare state, other emergency services
and other publicly funded institutions.

Conference resolves to re-affirm our support for our comrades across the wider trade
union movement in their own fights against austerity and to collaborate with other
trade unions representing public sector employees to further the fight against cuts to
the public sector and attacks on pay, conditions and pensions by and when
necessary, organising mass simultaneous industrial action to seek an end to austerity
measures being inflicted on public sector employees.