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

Wolverhampton Pride

Wolves Pride 2016

Saturday 1st October
@1pm March leaves Fold Street car park, WV1 4LP

@2pm -Official opening by the Mayor approx. at: LGBT Centre, School Street, Wolverhampton. WV1 4LJ

officicial celebration continues to 9pm

Wolverhampton, Bilston & District TUC will join the march and also have a stall.

Unwelcome the Tory Conference to Birmingham 2016

Sunday 2nd October, the day the Tory Conference starts, TUC demo/rally

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/906366306124903/

Protest at the 2016 Tory party conference

JC4PM - at the Tory Conference

Sunday 2 October at 7:30pm–10pm

Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Centenary Square, Broad Street, B1 2EP Facebook event https://www.facebook.com/events/1126552190757467

Attila the Stockbroker, Grace Petrie, Jeremy Hardy + more, speakers include Dave Ward CWU Gen Sec

May Day venue under threat

Save and Support The Pegasus Pub, our May Day venue from closure and losing Licence

Whitmore Reans is a diverse and vibrant community lacking many resources. Whitmore Reans cannot afford to lose the Pegasus Pub, an important community resource.

WORLD DAY FOR DECENT WORK

Thu 6 October 2016

by UNISON West Midlands

Bilston Steelworks

Tempered Not Quenched – The Battle for Bilston’s Steelworks

Bilston Art Gallery exhibition on now until Sat 8 October 2016

On 5th October 1980, Elisabeth, fondly nick-named as Lizzie, the last blast furnace to grace the skyline of the Black Country, was torn down. The demolition of ‘Lizzie’ signalled the end of over 200 years of iron and steelmaking in the industrial heartlands of Britain. This exhibition documents the battle the local steel men of Bilston fought for 2 years to keep ‘Lizzie’ open as well as the resilience of the townsfolk in the face of adversity.

Dudley TUC music event - We Shall Overcome SATURDAY

"'We Shall Overcome' was launched as a reaction to the 2015 election. A group of musicians decided to put together a coordinated series of events in defiance of the Tory victory, but more specifically, the ever-deepening cuts to come. We considered, and still do, Austerity to be an ideological attack on our communities and we oppose it outright.

SATURDAY 8th OCTOBER @ Katie Fitzgerald's 187 Enville Street, DY8 3TB https://www.facebook.com/events/1765959626987757/

event sponsors The Labour Party https://www.facebook.com/stourbridgelabour and Trade Union Congress https://www.tuc.org.uk/ who deserve massive thanks for their help to get the promotions for the event under way.

Dudley TUC music event - We Shall Overcome SUNDAY

SUNDAY 9th OCTOBER @ Scary Canary, 108A Stourbridge High Street, DY8 1DT https://www.facebook.com/events/1880806742141492/

next WB&DTUC meeting

Thursday 20th October 2016

WB&DTUC Delegate Meeting

starts at 7-15pm ends 8-45pm

@Wolverhampton Civic Centre (Wulfruna Street entrance)

Attendance Allowance campaign

Campaign by Midlands TUC Pensioners Network - see report below.

+ Letter to copy to your MP

National Minimum Wage rates increase

Next rise is due 1st October 2016: 25+yrs £7.20 (no rise) 21-24yrs £6.95 18-20yrs £5.30 16-17yrs £4.00 apprentice rate £3.40

from 1st April 2016: hourly rate of the national minimum wage for those of 25 years and over, increased from £6.70 to £7.20. Two million under-25s are not be covered.

The Living Wage is £8.25/hour outside London, updated in November 2015. 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+

currently:

adult hourly rate of the national minimum wage 21-24 years is £6.70
development rate (which covers workers aged 18-20 years) is £5.30
rate for 16 to 17-year-olds is £3.87/hour
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 £3.30 per hour

TUC Midlands Equality Conference

Saturday 29^th October 2016

The second annual Equalities Conference of the TUC in the Midlands

The venue for the conference is the CWU Offices, Summer Lane, Birmingham B19 3TH and will commence at 11am.

Registration to attend this conference should be made to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and any queries please call on 0121 – 2364454

THE LUCAS PLAN

CELEBRATE THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LUCAS PLAN

NOVEMBER 26TH, BIRMINGHAM

Trade union courses in Wolverhampton 2016

TUC courses sign up now....

for September 2016 start Trade Union Studies Representatives’ Programme - Wolverhampton

@Beckminster House, Birches Barn Road, Wolverhampton WV3 7RJ

Union Reps Stage 1 ten weeks Wolverhampton 9 am – 4 pm on Mondays

Health & Safety Stage 1 ten weeks 9 am – 4 pm on Tuesdays

Stop government taking control over local government pensions

5 million people rely on the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to pay their pensions.

The Government wants powers over LGPS investment funds; but they could gamble away members’ money on infrastructure projects.

This is not allowed in any other UK scheme, including the MPs'.

The LGPS must be invested in members’ best interests. Sign the union-backed petition

Stop Arming Saudi

UK-made weapons are being used in Saudi Arabia's devastating bombing in Yemen, and the government continues to license further arms exports – despite overwhelming evidence of repeated breaches of international humanitarian law.

The UK's continued supply of arms to Saudi Arabia during its bombing campaign in Yemen is a flagrant breach of UK arms export regulation.
The UK government admits that Saudi Arabia is using UK weapons in its attacks on Yemen: warplanes, bombs and missiles – but it has repeatedly ignored and denied evidence of violations of international law.

The government consistently puts arms sale sales promotion before human lives and has stopped at nothing to keep the weapons flowing to Saudi Arabia. We have supplied Saudi Arabia with over £3.3billion of arms sales since Saudi-led attacks started on Yemen in March 2015 backed by UAE, Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt.