Union leaders warn of strikes and deep unrest over 'cuts that hurt poor'
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Union leaders will today endorse plans for the biggest show of industrial muscle for two decades including co-odinated industrial action, days of protest and national demonstrations against the Government's austerity measures. Harriet Harman, the party's acting leader, who also addresses the conference today, said yesterday that no one wanted to see strikes, but added that Labour felt "militant" about the effect of the planned cuts on public services. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, which represents civil servants, also called for co-ordinated protests to prevent a "bleak" future for workers. But Les Bayliss, who is standing to become the general secretary of Unite, warned that a wave of public-sector strikes would be counter-productive, turning trade unionists into the "villains of the piece".
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