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Heart Unions week

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#heartunions week will be take place 8-14 February 2021

  • To showcase the vital work unions do in the workplace and society,
  • To promote recruitment to the trade union movement, support organising, and to help deliver lasting change in workplaces.

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Midlands TUC Workshop

  • Campaign planning for union activists - Wednesday 10 February 2pm - 4pm

Midlands TUC Webinar

  • Value of unions in the West Midlands- Thursday 11 February 6pm
  • Read more: Heart Unions week

next WB&DTUC meeting

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online Zoom delegate Meeting

Thursday 18th February 2021

starts 7-15pm visitors welcome as observers

at 8pm:public meeting

 

Read more: next WB&DTUC meeting

Annual Report & Plan of Action 2020-21 Wolverhampton TUC

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Trade unionists: Let's vaccinate Britain

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Let's vaccinate Britain - time for trade union members to step up.

The way we get out of this pandemic is to get everyone vaccinated as soon as possible. That’s how we make sure workplaces are safe and get the chance to start rebuilding our country.

Read more: Trade unionists: Let's vaccinate Britain

affiliating to Wolverhampton TUC 2021

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We've had some good attendances at meetings and participation in our events this year, even if mostly online. However many who are involved are not delegates from their branches. Several branches failed to affiliate his year and several have been active with us for some years without their branches affiliating.

Please ask your branch to affiliate and to elect delegates this year or just promote our meetings to other trades unionists, better still bring someone along.

Our meetings are on the third Thursday of the month and we have interesting guest speakers most months.

Read more: affiliating to Wolverhampton TUC 2021

NATIONAL FIVE DAY STRIKE BY GMB MEMBERS AT BRITISH GAS

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OVER ‘FIRE & REHIRE’ CUTS IN PAY 

Loyal workers have been provoked into this strike by CEO of profitable company and now they will make their voices heard, says GMB Union 

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A national 5 day strike by GMB members at British Gas started on Thursday, 7, January 2021. 

Read more: NATIONAL FIVE DAY STRIKE BY GMB MEMBERS AT BRITISH GAS

UNISON Sandwell Leisure Trust dispute

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Sandwell Leisure Trust is planning to dismiss all employees to then re-engage on inferior terms and conditions to those negotiated nationally by their unions.

Read more: UNISON Sandwell Leisure Trust dispute

UNISON Heartlands hospital Porters' dispute

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UNISON members working as Porters at Heartlands Hospital are in dispute with the Trust over the changes to their rotas that will cut their pay, damage their health and wellbeing, and rip up their work life balance.

Well-paid managers on salaries well over three times that of the UNISON porters, are implementing a new rotational rota which included compulsory nights and lates.

 

 We are the Porters, a short video ballad by Banner Theatre produced in solidarity with striking porters, at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.   https://youtu.be/TLySeTTGrHQ

 

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Some staff will incur heavy financial losses of over £400 a month.

Many porters have caring responsibilities for children, grandchildren and parents. Childminders don’t provide care for nights and lates, and elderly care providers charge excessive fees for providing personal care outside of normal hours. As a consequence, many workers will be forced to resign from their roles and exist on the paltry Universal Credit.

The very existence of the Trust is to improve people’s health, but as an employer they are proposing changes that will cut the pay and change the lives of staff in such a way that there will be a big damage to their health.

Management claim that the changes to the rota are driven by data, but the data they used excluded important data from A&E and the Medical Assessment Units (MAU/Wards 22 and 23). The management analysis is so flawed as to be useless. 

The Trust implemented this rota a couple of years ago at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, and in that time many experienced porters have left the Trust as a direct result. UNISON has spoken to some of those who have stayed and they now have no work life balance and see very little of their family and friends, which has caused huge stress and anxiety.

 

 

#SaveUnionLearning

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The Tory government has decided to cut the £11m adult education scheme Union Learning Fund (ULF) funding at the end of the financial year in March 2021.

In response, Midlands TUC has launched the public campaign to #SaveUnionLearning.

Read more: #SaveUnionLearning

Your legal right to a safe place of work

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Your employer is obliged under the law to provide you with a safe place of work.

current national lockdown rules in force across the UK: You may only leave your home for work if you cannot reasonably work from home.

Employers expected to "take every possible step"to make this happen.

Read more: Your legal right to a safe place of work

Should police body cams be compulsory?

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from our earlier discussion around Black Lives matter, we identified a possible campaign around the police's use of Body Worn Video.

Read more: Should police body cams be compulsory?

Freedom for Ӧcalan campaign

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Freedom for Ӧcalan campaign.

Abdullah Ӧcalan is the imprisoned leader of the Kurdish liberation movement and the campaign is in solidarity with both his and the Kurdish people’s struggle for freedom from over a century of brutal repression and genocide.

Read more: Freedom for Ӧcalan campaign

Wolverhampton unemployment

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  • Nov 2020 16,990 are now claiming unemployment related benefits in Wolverhampton, 7,000 more people than at the start of the pandemic.
  • 3,325 are18-24 years old, and over 18% of males in this age group.

https://insight.wolverhampton.gov.uk/Home/Report/893f663a-737f-4295-b376-84241fbedbe7 then select claimant count in report section. 

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Read more: Wolverhampton unemployment

Trades Councils Programme of Work 2020-21

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Wolverhampton's social care spending has been cut 22% per capita.

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Wolverhampton & Walsall hit hardest in West Midlands

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USDAW petition against abuse of shop workers

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Usdaw’s recent success in getting over 100,000 signatures on our parliamentary petition has further highlighted that urgent action is needed. We are therefore pleased that the Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee has just launched an inquiry into violence and abuse towards retail workers.

The Committee wants to hear your experiences of abuse, threats and violence in the workplace. This is a rare opportunity for you to be able to voice your concerns directly to parliament. We need as many retail workers as possible to take part in the survey as this will build further pressure on the Government to take action. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey.

Read more: USDAW petition against abuse of shop workers

  1. Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign
  2. West Midlands TUC Green recovery plan
  3. Black Lives Matter
  4. TUCJCC report
  5. Is your workplace COVID-Secure? Help test a new TUC risk assessment website
  6. The poor will suffer the most in this epidemic
  7. National Minimum Wage rates increase
  8. TUC Congress 2020
  9. national Trades Union Councils meeting 2020
  10. Trade union courses locally 2020
  11. TUC Women Chainmakers' Festival of Cradley Heath
  12. TUC - no return until safe
  13. Advice for Employees re Covid-19
  14. TUC plan to work our way out of recession
  15. Construction Safety Campaign
  16. Over 75s free TV licence campaign
  17. British arms exports to Israel
  18. Sunday Trading opposition
  19. TUC Webinar: Health and safety in the home
  20. Wolverhampton Workers' Memorial 2020
  21. Wolverhampton May Day virtual festival Friday 1st May 2020
  22. Bus Pass - on tour
  23. Justice for the Shrewsbury 24 Pickets
  24. Wodenstock 2021
  25. Teachers work almost 12 hours each week unpaid hours on average
  26. Midlands TUC Inclusion Committee
  27. Waspi Women's Concessionary Travel Pass
  28. Action For Rail
  29. Solidarity with Palestine : Next Steps for the UK Trade Union Movement
  30. Midlands TUC Pensioners’ Network
  31. Working in the UK - a guide to your rights
  32. Wolverhampton support for victims of Honour-Based Violence
  33. Sexual Harassment advice and tackling ONLINE Hate crime
  34. Protest at Indian Consulate
  35. Don't lose your right to vote
  36. Stop Arming Saudi
  37. Wolverhampton's Universal Credit workers strike
  38. Coal and Communities project
  39. Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
  40. Fancy free entry to music festivals - volunteer 2021?
  41. Police Spies Out of Lives
  42. General Election 2019 discussion
  43. TUC Education free webinars
  44. Real wages down in the West Midlands still
  45. Childcare costs up nearly five times faster than West Midlands wages
  46. National Conversation on Immigration
  47. Dying to Work campaign
  48. local JOBS
  49. Blacklisted
  50. Boycott, Divest and Sanction Israel
  51. The Facts About Facility Time for Union Reps
  52. History of Wolverhampton, Bilston and District Trades Union Council 1865-1990
  53. Unknown history of Wolverhampton Tinplate trade unionists
  54. The Wolverhampton Worker
  55. 150 years anniversary badges
  56. Shop

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