Construction Safety Campaign
A crane collapse at a construction site in Bow, East London (July 2020) has led to the death of a women 85-year-old woman, June Harvey, with a construction worker remaining […]
Articles by Wolves TUC
Is your workplace COVID-Secure? Help test a new TUC risk assessment website
Can you help us test and develop a new TUC website to keep workers safe as our workplaces start up again after lockdown? Union campaigning won a new government duty […]
Wolves TUC featured in Art in Lockdown exhibition
Art in Lockdown invite inspires hundreds of creations
Over 75s free TV licence campaign
from 1st August 4 million older people are set to lose their free TV Licence. Lee Barron, TUC Midlands Regional Secretary and Yvonne Washbourne, Chair of the TUC Midlands Pensioners Network […]
Black Lives Matter
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Des Halestrap
Bro. Des Halestrap NATFHE delegate to WB&DTUC (1990s) died on 1st May 2020, aged 88.
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 […]
TUC plan to work our way out of recession
A new jobs protection and upskilling plan TUC September 2020
TUC – no return until safe
TUC – No one should have to return to work without “tough new measures” on safety TUC demands that all employers produce risk assessments before lockdown is eased New measures […]
Covid-19 lockdown: the risk of a police state
by Rob Marris, solicitor (Vice-President Wolverhamptoon & Bilston TUC) The risk to trades unionists is that, literally, the police will start to make up laws as they go along; […]
The poor will suffer the most in this epidemic
Laid bare: The scandal of expendable workers before, during and after Covid https://www.ier.org.uk/comments/laid-bare-the-scandal-of-expendable-workers-before-during-and-after-covid/ The new class divide – how Covid-19 exposed and exacerbated workplace inequality in the UK
TUC Webinar: Health and safety in the home
Coronavirus at Work webinar, with Quinn Roache, Policy Officer in LGBT+ and Disability Rights, and Shelly Asquith, Health and Safety Officer. Watch the recording to see discussions on: – Ergonomic […]
TUC Midlands Webinar: Coronavirus – Union Issues & Wins
Thursday 23rd April 12.30 – 13.30 Hosted via Microsoft Teams Coronavirus has brought huge disruption to our lives and workplaces. Unions have been at the forefront in addressing […]
160,000 West Midlands workers can’t get Statutory Sick Pay
TUC calls on government to tackle coronavirus by guaranteeing sick pay for all workers, regardless of how much they earn · Nearly 2 million workers aren’t eligible for Statutory Sick […]
March 2020
Wolverhampton, Bilston & District TUC Report for March 2020 info@wolvestuc.org.uk Wolverhampton TUC on Facebook www.wolvestuc.org.uk The Criminal Cases Review Commission (4-3-20) finally agreed to refer the convictions of the […]
Teachers work almost 12 hours each week unpaid hours on average
Workers in the West Midlands put in £2.7bn worth of unpaid overtime last year – TUC analysis
February 2020
Wolverhampton, Bilston & District Trades Union Council Delegate Meeting MINUTES Thursday 20th February 2020 Present: Sis Taylor UNITE CYW, Ceresa UNISON City, Francis NASUWT, D.Weaver UNITE WM5203, C.Simm PCS […]