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
Union campaigns
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
30 June Wolverhampton anti-cuts meeting
March 26th …500,000 strong demonstration in London against the cuts…. June 30th ……800,000 strong national strike against cuts… What next to stop the ConDem’s plunder of the public sector?
TUC Black Workers’ Conference
TUC Black Workers’ Conference report 2012 – Defending Black Communities
Chainmakers meeting
Friday, July 15 the son of the last Cradley Heath woman chainmaker Trevor Woodhall is giving a talk about the strikers.
June 30th strike
Thursday June 30th Wolverhampton STRIKE RALLY Following early morning pickets across workplaces in Wolverhampton with 350 schools closed across the Black Country, strikers marched through the City centre from the […]
Southern Cross GMB briefing
CRISIS IN SOUTHERN CROSS: GMB BRIEFING
Disabled People and the Cuts
Everything you wanted to know about care and benefit cuts but were afraid to ask..…read here…
Recent changes in taxation of the Rich
Income tax. Shortly after Mrs Thatcher came to power and for the majority of her term in office the top rate of tax on the super rich was 60%. This […]
Paul Uppal defeated in Tory attempt to effectively ban strikes
A Ten-minute Rule Bill in Parliament, attempting to prohibit strike action in emergency and transport service sectors unless a majority of employees in the unionised workforce has voted in favour […]
Disabled people feel lives under threat
by Disabled People Against Cuts – Data from Family Resources Survey and the National Equalities Panel Research (2010) found that: 75% of disabled women and 70% of disabled men […]
Housing Benefit changes hit disabled
The Chartered Institute of Housing has calculated that the cumulative effects of the coalition’s proposals mean that by 2020 every tenants’ Housing Benefit will be too low to cover their […]
Lib dem caught stealing
The wife of Wolverhampton's SpringVale ward Liberal Democrat councillor Mike Heap, has been filmed stealing a Labour leaflet from a voter's letterbox and replacing it with a Lib Dem leaflet. […]
NHS crisis conference
Saturday May 19, 2018How did the NHS get to be like this? St Lukes Birmingham, Great Colmore Street – Birmingham 13:30–16:00organised by Socialist Health Association
march on Lib Dem Birmingham conference
3,000 people marched for The Alternative – Birmingham , organised by Midlands TUC
TUC demo against cuts 26 March 2011
full review of media debate
Prison Privatisation
Prison officers in the sights Thursday 31 March 2011 Morning Star editorial – in response to privatisation announcement of Winson Green (Birmingham) prison. It was always a certainty that this government, […]