UNISON Sandwell Leisure Trust dispute
UNISON members at SLT are taking further strike action on Friday 28 January. The longest running industrial dispute in Sandwell’s history – a series of strikes called by UNISON in […]
Union campaigns
Heart Unions week
#heartunions week 14-20 February 2022 https://www.tuc.org.uk/heartunions Showcasing the vital work unions do in the workplace and society and promoting recruitment to the trade union movement, support organising, and to help […]
Midlands TUC-Morning Star conference
To mark the start of HeartUnions week 2022, the Morning Star and the TUC have teamed up again to host an online rally. We’ll be hearing from leading national and […]
Decent sick pay for all
The UK has the least generous statutory sick pay in Europe, worth just £96.35 per week. And it is only available to employees earning £120 per week or more – […]
Action on Amazon
a new UNITE the union-led COALITION, challenging the working practices championed by Amazon.Their union-busting tactics deny workers a voice and create unnecessary fear. see https://actiononamazon.org/
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 […]
COP26
The End of COP26: What Decisions Were Made and How Do They Affect You?
How Wealth Wields Power and the Case for a Wealth Tax
The Nature of Wealth in Britain: a report by John Trickett MP that proposes a radical overhaul of our tax system.
Fixing Leicester’s garment industry – one year on
TUC launch new report marking the one year anniversary of a roundtable jointly held by the TUC, Leicester City Council in response to the crisis within Leicester’s garment industry When […]
Black History in schools
following Patrick Vernon’s talk to Wolverhampton TUC, we worked with Wolverhampton Council to get a copy in each of Wolverhampton’s 110 schools and libraries. Year 7 students Nobelo Phuthi, […]
Right to Food
Sarah Woolley, General Secretary of BFAWU, the Bakers’ Union spoke at our July 2021 meeting BFAWU Right to Food reporthttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1h_FU55hhDyVrCiocEsoJDklb1DYvqAkM/view
West Midlands TUC Green recovery plan
TUC plan would mean more than 46,000 new green jobs for the West Midlands over next 2 years TUC report sets out opportunities for a net zero carbon economy in […]
Wolverhampton’s social care spending has been cut 22% per capita.
Wolverhampton & Walsall hit hardest in West Midlands
Better Buses
Midlands TUC has been working with bus unions and the TUC Pensioners Network over recent months around campaigning for better buses. This has led to us producing our bus activist […]
NATIONAL STRIKE BY GMB MEMBERS AT BRITISH GAS
OVER ‘FIRE & REHIRE’ CUTS IN PAY Already 43 days strike action over 9 months Loyal workers have been provoked into this strike by CEO of profitable company and now they will make […]
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 […]
TUC plan to work our way out of recession
A new jobs protection and upskilling plan TUC September 2020