Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign

 

  • Saturday 19th January 2019 - Protest against the UK-Israel Arms Trade HSBC Bank, Queen Square, 10am-12noon
  • Friday 8th February - Public Meeting with Beverly Momenabadi, Labour City Councillor, on her recent trip to the West Bank

Birmingham UNISON Home Care Workers

 now been in dispute for over a year and have taken over 45 days of strike action.

Tuesday 29th Birmingham Midlands Institute, Margaret Street

Rally Organised by Midlands TUC for Care Workers.

 6.30 - 8.30p.m Guest speaker : Mark Serwotka PCS Gen Sec
 Up date from Caroline Johnson, UNISON branch secretary,


Austerity is a political choice – not an economic necessity

UNISON have over 280 members still in dispute with Birmingham City Council and are calling on support from across the movement.

Heart Unions week

 #HeartUnions - TUC’s Great Jobs Campaign/Heart Unions week 2019: 

Wolverhampton & Bilston TUC's campaigning in Wednesfield market 10-30am Saturday 9th February 2019 &

Sunday 10th February in Bilston market 10-30am to hand out Valentine flowers spread the trade union message as part of a national campaigning week. 

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Wolverhampton TUC Report of Work 2018 & Plan of Action 2019

2018 highlights of Wolves TUC

Police Spies Out of Lives speaker

Thursday 21st February 2019

Police Spies Out of Lives speaker at 8pm

 venue Unite Office, 6 Victoria Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1LD next to bus station, over bridge from train station

- all trade union supporters welcome -

 

Police Spies Out of Lives is organised by and for people deceived into relationships with undercover police.

 

Fancy free entry to music festivals - volunteer 2019?

2019 festivals - The deadline for submitting your name to volunteer for these festivals is March 2019

 

Annmarie Kilcline to speak

the new UNITE Regional Secretary Annmarie Kilcline will speak

Thursday 21st March 2019 @8pm

venue Unite Office, 6 Victoria Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1LD next to bus station, over bridge from train station

Oppose the Birmingham Arms fair

Thursday 28 March Oppose the Birmingham Arms fair outside the NEC – Campaign Against Arms Trade

full details on https://www.facebook.com/brumstaf/

 

The war in Yemen has caused the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. More than 85,000 children under the age of 5 have died from malnutrition. The fighting and the Saudi-imposed blockade have caused a cholera outbreak that has affected over 1.2million people.

The UK government is directly involved in causing this suffering. It has licensed almost £5billion of weaponry to the Saudi regime since the bombing began in 2015. UK-made planes are dropping UK-made bombs in Yemen.

 

see 

Stop Arming Saudi 

https://wolvestuc.org.uk/index.php/local-campaigns/anti-war/791-stop-arming-saudi

and

British arms exports to Israel

https://wolvestuc.org.uk/index.php/local-campaigns/wolves-palestine-solidarity/256-wolverhampton-link-to-arms-exports-to-israel

 

Don't lose your right to vote

register ready for the next elections

Rouse, Ye Women!

 - A new folk ballad about Mary Macarthur and the women chainmakers

Rouse Ye women Initial Flyer

Wolverhampton Workers' Memorial Day

The next Wolverhampton Workers' memorial Day will be Sunday 28th April 2019

 12.30pm at the Workers' Memorial Day Tree, Cenotaph, St Peters Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1TS

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Trade union courses locally 2019

TUC courses sign up now....for Jan 2019 start 
Trade Union Studies Representatives’ Programme 

 

Union Reps Stage 1  10 x Mondays from Jan 2019 at Shrewsbury College & GMB Offices, Hanley, Stoke on Trent

Health & Safety Stage 1 ten weeks  9 am – 4 pm 10 x Tuesdays from Jan 2019 at Shrewsbury College & GMB Offices, Hanley, Stoke on Trent

TUC Trades Councils Programme of Work 2018-19

TUC Brexit position

Wolverhampton & Bilston TUC delegates viewed the video by Frances O'Grady TUC General Secretary (https://www.facebook.com/tradesunioncongress/videos/344853249595371/) on the TUC's position currently on Brexit and after discussion came up with the following conclusions which we will be expressing to the TUC General Secretary.

The TUC's expressed opinion is unclear and a fudge.

TUC Women Chainmakers' Festival of Cradley Heath

A new folk ballad about Mary Macarthur and the women chainmakers APR 9th 2019 - 7.30PM - NEWHAMPTON ARTS WOLVERHAMPTON http://wolvestuc.org.uk/index.php/6-articles/general-documents/932-rouse-ye-women

 

The next annual Midlands TUC Chainmakers Festival, is

Cradley Heath High Street on Saturday 6th July 2019,  the largest celebration in Britain of women's political history.

  1. Workers Music Assoc summer school
  2. Amazon protest - GMB
  3. UNITE strike at WZ Packaging
  4. Taxi drivers' protest
  5. National Minimum Wage rates increase
  6. The Magic Money Tree
  7. Midlands TUC Regional Council - delegate's report
  8. Tuesday 1st May 2018 Wolverhampton Workers' Day - May Day
  9. British arms exports to Israel
  10. Stop Arming Saudi
  11. Midlands TUC Pensioners’ Network
  12. Council partners with Trade Unions to improve Health and Safety standards
  13. Bus Pass - on tour
  14. WASPI
  15. Wolverhampton City of Sanctuary
  16. Real wages down in the West Midlands still
  17. TUC Education free webinars
  18. Childcare costs up nearly five times faster than West Midlands wages
  19. Sexual Harassment advice and tackling ONLINE Hate crime
  20. National Conversation on Immigration
  21. Wolverhampton support for victims of Honour-Based Violence
  22. Justice for the Shrewsbury 24 Pickets
  23. Dying to Work campaign
  24. The Wolverhampton Worker
  25. Working in the UK - a guide to your rights
  26. Action For Rail
  27. Challenging NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans
  28. Stop government taking control over local government pensions
  29. local JOBS
  30. Wolverhampton unemployment
  31. 150 years anniversary badges
  32. Blacklisted
  33. Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel
  34. History of Wolverhampton, Bilston and District Trades Union Council 1865-1990
  35. The Facts About Facility Time for Union Reps