Britain braces for fresh general strike

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.
Trade Union Congress (TUC) was urged by rail union RMT’s AGM in a unanimous vote to to organise a Britain-wide walkout.
“We are going to hand over worse conditions to our children and grandchildren”, said London Underground delegate John Reid.
“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.
General secretary Bob Crow agreed that government austerity policies “are not about paying back the debt but changing society.”

“This government never wanted the NHS, council housing or education for all and now they want to destroy it”, he said.
“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.
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.
But he was also clear delegates must be prepared to build support for a general strike in their workplaces.
“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.
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This article originally appeared on: Press TV