NASUWT: Comments on the Prime Minister’s speech
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s speech on public service reform, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“If the Prime Minister thinks he can silence millions of public service workers by brushing off their significant concerns as predictable and insignificant, he should think again.
“A Government genuinely concerned to ensure its reforms are workable would be wise to listen to those who raise objections.
“However, as we have seen at every turn, valid objections are dismissed and labelled as vested interests. Consultation responses in their thousands are ignored because they don’t agree with the Coalition Government line.
“The NASUWT is not afraid of change and reform designed to improve public services and has a track record of engagement with government at national and local level to prove it.
“What the Union will not support is a Prime Minister, with no democratic mandate, bulldozing his way through public services, clearing the way for the private sector profiteers this Coalition Government so favours, to enable them to turn a fast buck at public expense.”
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