Wolverhampton Bilston & District Trades Union Council est.1865 www.wolvestuc.org.uk

next WB&DTUC meeting

Thursday 20th June

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

Wolverhampton, Bilston & District Trades Union Council Delegate Meeting starts 7-15pm

- all trade union supporters welcome -

speaker at 8pm:

report from our delegates:

Marie Taylor & Nick Kelleher from the Midlands Trades Union Councils conference

Bob Simm (PCS) at the Bournemouth national conference of Trades Union Councils

Also

James Wakins (personal capacity), Chair of Unite the Union's West Midlands Regional Labour Party Liaison Committee and standing for the Labour nomination for West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner

Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Sat 15 June HSBC lobby Bridgnorth 43 High St, bus from Wolves 10-30am
speaker Fri 28 June Musheir El Farra, Gaza Human Rights activist Friends Meeting House 6b Summerfield Road WV1 1PR 7pm for 7-30pm
Sunday 7 July garden party fundraiser 2-30-5pm
to get involved in local activity you can also contact the Wolves PSC directly:

on 01902 450640 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- join Palestine Solidarity Campaign Wolverhampton on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/167943526632859/

Wodenstock

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Free Sunday afternoon entertainment for families in and around Wednesfield on Black Country Day organised by local trade unions.

TUC Women Chainmakers' Festival of Cradley Heath

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The next annual Midlands TUC Chainmakers Festival, is

Saturday 6th July 2019, the largest celebration in Britain of women's political history.

11.00 - 20.00 | Mary Macarthur Gardens
This year the festival will also be revamped with all activities taking place in Mary Macarthur Gardens.

Stalls open from 11am with the new 'Leftfield Tent' opening at 12 noon. The Leftfield will feature activities for kids, as well as political debate, with panels exploring the role of women in trade unions and society and how to organise young workers.

The much loved theatrical re-enactment will take place at 2.30pm with a banner parade around Cradley Heath, before the main tent opens with speeches and music.

Headlining the festival is the Latin funk band Wara

petition in support of local UCU branch Sec

Sandwell College sacked UCU branch secretary Dave Muritu for gross misconduct after he wrote on a poster promoting the controversial Prevent programme. Muritu apologised for his actions but, although the college acknowledged that his actions didn’t bring the institution into disrepute, he was summarily dismissed. UCU believes such a heavy-handed and disproportionate response from the college had to be down to Muritu’s trade union activities.

full details plus the petition on

https://speakout.web.ucu.org.uk/reinstate-david-muritu/

Wolverhampton's Universal Credit workers strike

PCS members in the Universal Credit Service Centres in Wolverhampton and Walsall took two day strike 28/29 May 2019, in their campaign for more staff and improved working conditions.

Birmingham UNISON Home Care Workers

Victory for UNISON's 280 members who had been in dispute with Birmingham City Council , taking strike actoion over 17 months. They will keep their original jobs!

Why is this dispute so important?

Coal and Communities project

The topic of our May 2019 meeting by speaker from UCU delegate Dr Grace Millar

Learn more about Coal and Communities

Wolverhampton Workers' Day - May Day Wednesday 1st May 2019

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Wolverhampton Workers' Memorial Day

Sunday 28 April 2019

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The next Wolverhampton Workers' memorial Day will be Tuesday 28th April 2020

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

everyone welcome, wreaths and trade union banners too

Venezuela Solidarity Campaign

We re-affiliated after discussing speach of Dr Francisco Domínguez National Secretary Venezuela Solidarity Campaign

Trade union courses locally 2019

TUC courses sign up now....for September 2019 start

Trade Union Studies Representatives’ Programme at Shrewsbury College & GMB Offices, Hanley, Stoke on Trent

Union Reps Stage 1 10 x Mondays 9 am – 4 pm

Health & Safety Stage 1 ten Tuesdays

Bus Pass - on tour

Don't lose your right to vote

Police Spies Out of Lives

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

Unknown history of Wolverhampton Tinplate trade unionists

Graham Dodd branch secretary of Wolverhampton Craft branch of Community union and Wolverhampton Council Leader Roger Lawrence, on Fri 15 Feb 2019 were joined by Labour councillors, all the Wolverhampton MPs and delegates from Wolverhampton, Bilston and District Trades Union Council to rededicated and unveil the plaque in its new prominent position in the ground floor Canteen of the Civic Centre.

Five Wolverhampton Tinplate workers were transported in 1819, before the Tolpuddle Martyrs, for the crime of forming a trade union.

-their union branch later became a founder of our trades union council and still exists today, now as the Wolverhampton Craft of Community union; it is Wolverhampton, Bilston & District TUC’s oldest affiliated branch at 217 years continued existence.