Coventry Socialist Party members were out today supporting youth workers in UNITE the union, protesting outside the Council House against the latest cuts to Coventry Youth Service by Coventry’s Labour controlled Council. Cuts that will see job losses and even more young people go without vital support and help.

This dispute raises once again the current political strategy pursued by UNITE and the other Council Unions at a national level – UNISON and GMB. There needs to be debate in all three unions and various others, about why they continue to fund a Labour Party that is so willing to carry out the bidding of the Tories on the people of Coventry.