Wolverhampton Bilston & District Trades Union Council est.1865 www.wolvestuc.org.uk

Wolverhampton Workers' Memorial Day

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Tuesday 1st May 2018 Wolverhampton Workers' Day - May Day

doors open 6-45pm Tuesday 1st May 2018

venue: Pegasus Banqueting Suite, Jackson Street, Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton WV6 0QQ

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Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign

11-12am Saturday 28th April HSBC protest against links to arms sales to Israel Queens Sq Wolverhampton.

PSC garden party is still to be decided, but please keep a note of the date and time - Sunday July 8th 2018, 2-5pm

In the worst single day of violence since the assault on Gaza in 2014, on 30 March 2018,Israeli forces shoot 773 unarmed Palestinians taking part in a Land Day demonstration.

Thousands of Palestinians congregated in Gaza to start a series of protests called “The Great Return March”. Organised as a non-violent demonstration supported across Palestinian society, the protest is reaffirming the Palestinian right of return (grounded in International Law), and calling for an end to Israel's illegal decade long blockade of the coastal strip.

Last week Israel deployed hundreds of snipers along the border of Gaza, who opened fire using live ammunition on unarmed Palestinian civilians. Over 1,400 Palestinians were injured, with 773 being shot, leaving 18 fatalities. There was not a single Israeli casualty.

contact: 01902 450640 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

join Palestine Solidarity Campaign Wolverhampton on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/167943526632859/

A New Deal for Working People - TUC March and Rally

BOOK NOW- The TUC is holding a national march and rally on Saturday 12 May 2018 in central London.

Wolverhampton TUC and UNISON City of Wolverhampton have bought a quantity of train tickets depart 7-45am; return from London at 4-45pm arr 6-30pm

We are offering our tickets at subsidised rate £10 waged else what you can afford. 0753805376. UNISON members contact your branch offfice 554095 for free tickets

All workers deserve a great job so everyone has a chance to progress and get on in life.

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Fancy free entry to music festivals - volunteer 2018?

2018 festivals
The deadline for submitting your name to volunteer for these festivals is now 26th April

2018 festivals available for us to work at if any volunteers

Liam Gallagher, Queens of The Stone Age and The Community Festival – Friday 29th, Saturday 30th and Sunday 1st July Finsbury Park, north London -hostels not camping

Lovebox/Citadel west London Gunnersbury Park - 13th - 15th July-hostels not camping

@Malahide Castle 10mile north Dublin near beach and airport
LCD Soundsystem - Tuesday 5th June 2018
Kodaline - Friday 8th June
Gorillaz - Saturday 9th June 2018

Liam Gallagher - Friday 15th June 2018
Nile Rogers/CHIC – Freak out!!Saturday 16th June

Electric Picnic, Co. Laois, Ireland -60miles SW Dublin - Friday 31st August - Sunday 2nd September

next WB&DTUC meeting

Wolverhampton, Bilston & District Trades Union Council - all trade union supporters welcome -

Thursday 17th May 2018

venue Unite Office, 6 Victoria Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1LD next to bus station, over bridge from train station

speaker @8pm

Don't lose your right to vote

TUC Women Chainmakers' Festival of Cradley Heath

The annual Midlands TUC Chainmakers Festival, is held in

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Cradley Heath High Street on Saturday 7th July 2018,

is the largest celebration in Britain of women's political history.

It re-enacts the struggle and celebrates the achievements and strugle of the trade union movement both then and now.

Tired of working day and night for starvation wages, the Women Chainmakers of Cradley Heath in the Black Country in 1910, downed their hammers and stood up for their right to earn a living wage.

Led by the founder of the National Federation of Women Workers, Mary Macarthur, their ten week strike successfully established the right to a minimum wage.

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Trade union courses locally 2018

TUC courses sign up now....for April 2018 start

Trade Union Studies Representatives’ Programme

Union Reps Stage 1 10 x Mondays from 23 April 2018 at Shrewsbury College & GMB Offices, Hanley, Stoke on Trent

Health & Safety Stage 1 ten weeks 9 am – 4 pm 10 x Tuesdays from 24 April 2018 at Shrewsbury College & GMB Offices, Hanley, Stoke on Trent

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National Minimum Wage rates increase

currently:

adult hourly rate of the national minimum wage 25 years+ is £7.83 from 1st April 2018
adult hourly rate of the national minimum wage 21-24 years is £7.38 from 1st April 2018
development rate (which covers workers aged 18-20 years) is £5.90 from 1st April 2018
rate for 16 to 17-year-olds is £4.20/hour from 1st April 2018
for apprentices under the age of 19 and those aged 19 and over in the first 12 months of their apprenticeship, the apprentice minimum wage rate is £3.70 per hour, from 1st April 2018

The real Living Wage is £8.75/hour outside London, updated November 2017. It is calculated according to the cost of living by the Living Wage Foundation, calculated by the Centre for Research in Social Policy and not to be confused with the Tory use of the term referring to the increase of minimum wage for 25 years+

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Scrap the Pay Gap - PCS/UNITE public meeting

Union Leaders and Politicians unite to call a halt to HMRC closure in Wolverhampton

Mark Serwotka leader of the biggest civil service union, PCS, Howard Beckett Assistant General secretary of UK’s largest union, Unite, and Wolverhampton South West MP, Eleanor Smith addressed a public meeting in Wolverhampton, (15.3.2018) calling for the government to halt the proposed closure of Wolverhampton HMRC (Tax) office.

100 people attended the meeting held in the Britannia Hotel Wolverhampton. The meeting also heard from Vince Butler one of the employees from HMRC who face losing their job, if they do not accept a transfer to another site.

500 Wolverhampton jobs threatened by Tory cuts

The Conservative government announced that it was closing 150 Tax Offices, including the Wolverhampton office at Crown house, which employs over 500 staff. Employees will inevitably face redundancy, this office could be closed within the next two years.

The impact on Wolverhampton will be huge with the loss of £millions from the local economy.

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PCS union members were joined by members of WB&DTUC executive committee to petition Wolverhampton on 28-05-17

TUC’s Great Jobs Campaign/Heart Unions week

#HeartUnions - TUC’s Great Jobs Campaign/Heart Unions week 2018: Wolverhampton & Bilston TUC's campaigning in Wednesfield and Bilston to hand out Valentine flowers spread the trade union message as part of a national campaigning week.

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British arms exports to Israel

Government figures for arms exports to Israel and all countries (are released six months or so behind)

latest:

July - Sept 2017 Britain exported £1,037,059 of direct arms to Israel including equipment for the use of targeting equipment, weapon sights, military aircraft parts, military equipment for initiating explosives and technology for multi-role missiles. £93,356 of arms exports was also sold to Israel for them to re-export to Rwanda and other countries.

April - June 2017 Britain exported £4,369,688 of direct arms to Israel and £1,074,052 for re-export

Jan - March 2017 Britain exported second highest quartley figure of £24,848,053 of direct arms to Israel and £2,452,215 for re-export