British rail workers have warned the coalition government that they will stage a nationwide general strike to stop the Conservative-led coalition condemning the next generation to poverty.\n<\/p>\n
Trade Union Congress (TUC) was urged by rail union RMT’s AGM in a unanimous vote to to organise a Britain-wide walkout.\n<\/p>\n
“We are going to hand over worse conditions to our children and grandchildren\u201d, said London Underground delegate John Reid.\n<\/p>\n
“The working class are being made to pay for the bankers’ crisis. Our social wage, won by our forefathers and mothers, is being stripped from us”, he added.\n<\/p>\n
General secretary Bob Crow agreed that government austerity policies “are not about paying back the debt but changing society.”\n<\/p>\n
“This government never wanted the NHS, council housing or education for all and now they want to destroy it\u201d, he said.\n<\/p>\n
“We’ve had massive marches but the government hasn’t listened and is still cutting everything we’ve worked for since World War II”, added Crow.\n<\/p>\n
Crow said the TUC’s austerity bus won’t put the brakes on Chancellor George Osbourne’s cuts and praised the mass demonstrations taking place in Brazil as an example for Britain’s workers.\n<\/p>\n
But he was also clear delegates must be prepared to build support for a general strike in their workplaces.\n<\/p>\n
“We need to go out of this meeting and say to every worker, enough is enough, we’ve been on marches, we’ve been on buses – now is the time to call a general strike”, he said.\n<\/p>\n
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