Lancaster City Council leader withdraws from cost of living meeting but sends support amid political pause for Queen’s funeral
A Lancaster public meeting calling for political action on cost-of-living issues including work and pay went ahead this week with speakers from various sectors including the Royal Mail, railways, telecoms, care, colleges and Lancaster University.
Eugene Doherty, of Lancaster & Morecambe Trades Council, said: “It was a good meeting with plenty of input from the audience. We had a range of speakers across different industries and trade unions. Speakers included James Attwood, a union representative from Royal Mail in Lancaster, Darren Ireland of the rail union RMT, Carl Webb of post and telecoms union CWU, which has members at BT and Openreach; Joanne Thompson from the Unison union which represents care workers, Siobhan Collingwood of the NEU education union and Julie Hearn of the UCU union linked to Lancaster University.
Regarding the Enough is Enough public meeting, Coun Jackson told LancsLive: “The advice both from local government and from political parties is that until after the Queen’s funeral, we should take part only in civic or commemorative events. I understand Cat Smith was not present at the Enough is Enough meeting for the same reason.”
“I can and do believe that our communities will look-out for each other through that ‘spirit of radical generosity’ the World Energy Council spoke of this week. However we must look beyond crisis to providing a secure future. “I welcome The Enough is Enough movement and its related events,. At a time more suitable, I think it is important to be raising questions about dealing with the cost-of-living crisis for those hardest hit. Issues about minimum wage levels, pay differentials, the role of the unions, welfare benefit rates are indeed just some of the areas requiring examination. I look forward to further debate.”
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