Tourists
looking down from the Castle saw history being
made
below them as Johnston Terrace was jammed with
clerks, cooks and cleaners,
teachers, librarians, radiographers, nurses,
lectures, bin men and women,
jannies, curators, students, thousands more of
good humoured but determined
public sector workers and their bairns
determined not to be “robbed of their
pension”, as I was told by a First Davison
Association (top management
union) picket at the court.
Tourists
looking down from the Castle saw history being
made
below them as Johnston Terrace was jammed with
clerks, cooks and cleaners,
teachers, librarians, radiographers, nurses,
lectures, bin men and women,
jannies, curators, students, thousands more of
good humoured but determined
public sector workers and their bairns
determined not to be “robbed of their
pension”, as I was told by a First Davison
Association (top management
union) picket at the court.
Unison
NHS members in
Canaan Lane
when I joked they’d
next bring the Government down , replied “We
wish we could. Students
stood with the Lectures outside the
University
Old
College ,
while the Unison branch there supplied tea and
coffee. About twenty Prospect
and PCS ” members united on a colourful picket
at the National Museum in
Chambers Street before going off to take their
place amongst the thousands who
filled the Royal Mile down to rally by the
Holyrood Palace and the Scottish Parliament..
Heads were high. Many people, as in my branch,
were striking for the first
time, but their enthusiasm to do something
practical was obvious. Only 19
papers sold ,but there was not enough time to
get round that huge crowd of
ordinary and decent people, the from the 99% of
society, out against the
attacks from the rich 1%, It was a great day
