Wolverhampton, Bilston & District TUC
Heart Unions TU recruitment stall – date/venue to be decided at delegate meeting, then see website
either 10-30am Sat 29 March
or 7-30am Railway Station Tues 1st April with Minimum Wage leaflet
FAO all Chairs of meetings and all those who wish to challenge a Chair!
Particularly in trade union and Labour Party circles, the ABC of Chairmanship has been considered a definitive guide since its publication in 1939. This is an online version updated in 2022 https://chair.guide/ For those of us lucky enough to have a hard copy, they are fairly valuable now!
Workers Memorial Day 12.30pm Monday 28 April, Workers’ Memorial Day Tree, Cenotaph, St Peters Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1TS
Trade union speakers, Industrial Chaplin and wreath laying
Wolverhampton Workers’ Day
May Day Thursday 1st May 2025
The new Midlands TUC Regional Secretary Stuart Richards and Warinder are among our speakers.
with Attila the Stockbroker
plus Someone at the Door samba band
Seeking donations £1k raised so far, but still need another £1k
Have your say on how the West Midlands Bus network is operated, until 30 March. The Plan is for a franchised bus network to replace the current private operator led system. Under franchising, Transport for West Midlands which is part of the West Midlands Combined Authority will set the fares, timetables and routes of bus services and award contracts to private bus operators to run them. Take part in the consultation: https://www.tfwm.org.uk/consultations/bus-reform/
First West Midlands showing of the inspiring London Recruits film at the Orbit cinema in Wellington(Telford) at 2.30pm on Saturday 5th April.
53 tickets left at time of writing (price £10) available from the cinema: https://wellingtonorbit.co.uk/film/950/london-recruits/ There will be a Q&A after the film with the director, Gordon Main, and two of the surviving London Recruits: Steve Marsling and Sean Hosey, who was arrested and served five years in a South African prison – both are portrayed in the film by actors.
It’s a great story of how young left-wingers who hated apartheid agreed to go to South Africa to help the African National Congress – something they kept secret for decades afterwards.