next WB&DTUC meeting
7-15pm Thursday 19th September 2024 delegate meeting, visitors welcome New Deal for Working People, what next? Fran Heathcote PCS General Secretary is a confirmed speaker at 8pm
Articles by Wolves TUC
TUC Women Chainmakers’ Festival of Cradley Heath
new date for 2024 event Sunday 15 September from 11am
Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign
WOLVERHAMPTON: DIVEST FOR PALESTINE – petition asking Wolverhampton Council to stop investing in companies complicit in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.
British arms exports to Israel
Recent UK exports to Israel for use against Palestinians.
Wolverhampton Workers’ Memorial Day
next event – Monday 28th April 2025 12.30pm at the Workers’ Memorial Day Tree, Cenotaph, St Peters Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1TS ~ all welcome next event – Monday 28th April […]
annual Silk Mill march & rally
2024 Silk Mill Festival Derby Market Place from 10.30am Saturday 8th June more details on https://www.facebook.com/DerbySilkMillRally all welcome to join us for the march and following Festival with music, community and […]
National Minimum Wage rates increase
from 1st April 2024 the adult rate of the National Minimum Wage will be paid from the age of 21 years at £11.44/hour. development rate (which covers workers aged 18-20 […]
Heart Unions week
all of the events nationally are listed here https://www.megaphone.org.uk/calendars/heart-unions-week-2024
affiliating to Wolverhampton TUC 2024
We have run campaigns and supported picket lines of ASLEF, NEU, PCS, RMT, UCU and UNITE this year which can be seen on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/wolvestuc and this website.
Trades Union Councils’ Joint Consultative Committee (TUCJCC) report
TUCJCC is made up of Trades Union Council regional reps and TUC General Council members
Burston Strike School Rally
Annual rally to celebrate the longest strike in history: Schoolchildren ‘went on strike’ in 1914 to support their teachers, sacked by the rural squirearchy for organising agricultural workers. September 4th […]
Sandwell Leisure Trust dispute victory
After a 20 month long dispute by Sandwell UNISON at Sandwell Leisure Trust against being fired and rehired to remove staff from national NJC pay, Sandwell Leisure Trust on Friday […]
Stand Up to Fascism demo
coaches to anti-fascist protest in Telford on Saturday 7 May 2022
Stop Arming Saudi
Over a £billion of UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia last year. Jan 2023 Oxfam report published showing during the 14-month period between January 2021 and the end of February […]
Saltley Gate 50th Anniversary Rally
50th Anniversary of ‘The Battle of Saltley Gate’
Trade union courses locally 2022
TUC courses sign up now…for online TU courses Midlands TUC courses: https://www.tuc.org.uk/TUCcourses#midlands more online courses at https://www.tuceducation.org.uk/findacourse/ Trade Union Studies Representatives’ Programme at Shrewsbury College & GMB Offices, Hanley, Stoke on Trent Union Reps Stage […]
Your legal right to a safe place of work
Your employer is obliged under the law to provide you with a safe place of work. current national lockdown rules in force across the UK: You may only leave your home […]
COP26
The End of COP26: What Decisions Were Made and How Do They Affect You?
Labour Party Conference 2021 report
Wolverhampton South West CLP Trade Union Liaison Officer Report to WB&DTUC October 2021 Labour Party Conference 2021 It was a conference defined by transformative policy, nearly every progressive motion that […]