Delegates from UNISON’s community and voluntary sector conference today joined protesters in Manchester against the government’s ‘bedroom tax’.
The protest is one of over 50 taking place across the UK that will send a clear message to Downing Street that the bedroom tax should be scrapped.
UNISON’s community and voluntary sector service group chair Kevin Jackson said: “UNISON members in the community and voluntary sector are proud to be showing solidarity with thousands of people up and down the country opposed to the bedroom tax.
“If this is introduced, then the vulnerable people we work with on a daily basis, including many disabled people, will be made to suffer and forced to the margins of society.”
Lead organiser of the protest and founder of Labour Left, Dr Éoin Clarke, said: “The bedroom tax affects nearly 700,000 people, the majority of whom are disabled.
“One quarter of those affected are lone parents. Other people hit with this penalty include carers, the terminally ill, foster children, families with children fighting in Afghanistan, and many more besides.
“The great majority of British people think this is unfair. Not even a majority of Tory voters support this cruel policy.”
