UNISON is urging people to attend a pre-budget rally in London on 13 March, to add their voices to the call for a break with austerity.
Since 2009, the average worker has lost £4,000, as wages fall and prices rise.
The welfare cap will have a serious impact on low-income families, with those with two children set to lose a further £1,000 by 2015. Tax credit cuts have already lost some over £2,000.
The bedroom tax is set to hit 670,000 households, with disabled people and lone parents hit particularly hard.
Drastic cuts to schools and other essential services is equivalent to a £7,000 cut per household by 2018.
Centrally-imposed council funding cuts are hitting libraries, youth centres and playgrounds, while Sure Start centres are at risk or already gone.
And NHS cuts and privatisation have already seen 6,000 nurses axed, and A&E and maternity services under threat.
And the call comes as UNISON reveals that George Osborne’s tax cut for millionaires could help 12,000,000 children.
But it doesn’t need to be this way.
Join the rally at the Emmanuel Centre, 9-23 Marsham Street, London SW1P, from 6pm-7.30pm.
For more details, visit tuc.org.uk/budgetrally.
