Welfare Cut Demonstrations at Parliament

March 27 2025

 

 

CWU Banner leading the anti-welfare cuts demo

Activists and disability rights campaigners took to the streets outside the home of UK democracy to make their views forcibly known in response to the news that the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced cuts to state welfare.

A reported 250,000 additional people will be pushed to the fringes of poverty including 50,000 children on the back of this news. The CWU London Region banner was asked to lead the rally from the front along with our NEC Disability Lead Mark Anthony Bastiani.

CWU General Secretary Dave Ward said this on the issue of the cuts:

“The Government’s decision to restrict access to disability benefits and slash the welfare budget is cruel, immoral and once again targets the most vulnerable in society. It is becoming increasingly clear Labour will be a one term government if it continues down this path and it is heading straight into a democratic debate within our movement over the relationship between trade unions and the party we created.

The CWU will be calling meetings with both other affiliated trade unions and the Government to campaign for this failed economic strategy and overall direction to be abandoned. The New Deal for Workers campaign showed the power and influence of our movement when we unite and fight for change – we must do so again.”
The CWU is committed to supporting the campaign promoting disability rights for people in work and wider society.