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 […]
Union campaigns
Save Wolverhampton’s Libraries
Councillors back community hubs plan
TUC demo – A Future That Works
TUC organised mass demonstration through central London with a rally in Hyde Park, under the banner of ‘A Future That Works’ on Saturday 20th October
Prison privatisation failure
G4S – £150m Featherstone super-jail plagued by problems within four weeks of opening
No to 999 call privatisation
Long-serving Wolverhampton Councillor Bob Jones won election for the new Police Commissioner for the West Midlands on November 15th in a 12% turnout. His first decision was to halt privatisation. […]
Youth Unemployment campaign
In the Black Country more than 1 in 10 young people are unemployed. The TUC is campaigning for a FUTURE THAT WORKS for young people in Wolverhampton. We need URGENT […]
3million workers set to lose rights
if Government plans to extend the qualifying period for protection against unfair dismissal from one year to two years go ahead
SAVE REMPLOY
Two solid national strikes took place in July. The Company have announced the closure of 27 factories which if they have their way will close by end of August, this […]
pensions strike on March 28th
PCS and NUT are now expected to decide joint national strike action in April. The proposed national strike in continued defence of pensions is now regional with NUT and UCU […]
Demonstrate at the Tory Party Conference
Over 3,000 demonstrated on the TUC’s Birmingham March for the Alternative of a Future that Works at The Tory Party conference. speakers: Bob Crow – RMT, Len McCluskey – UNITE, Christine […]
DVLA job cut threat
An announcement was made in December of DVLAs intention to close all 39 DVLA offices and enforcement centres across the country, which will result in the loss of 1200 jobs.
pensions latest
PCS, UCU & UNITE Health national strike with other unions across the civil service, health and education
Anti-Academies Campaign
A call for support from fellow Trades Unionists at Earls High School, Halesowen
November 30th Pensions Justice strike
Wolverhampton’s biggest strike in a generation. 30-11-2011 There were mass closures of services across the city. After morning picketing from early hours in the morning, 2,000 strikers assembled in front of Civic […]
March for Alternative Manchester
30,000 took part in the TUC March for the Alternative Demo at the Tory conference in Manchester on Sunday 2nd October 2011 UNISON and the NUT both organised coaches from Wolverhampton
new Agency worker rights
Agency Workers’ Protection fails at the first legal hurdle…..
lecturers strike June 30th 2011
UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE UNION (UCU) WOLVERHAMPTON UNIVERSITY