
Thursday 19th May 2022 starts at earlier time of 7pm,
speakers @ 8pm Barry Gardiner MP – Campaigning against Fire and Re-hire
+Tony Barnsley branch Sec Sandwell UNISON – how we beat Fire & Rehire
Join Zoom Meeting….
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starts 7pm, visitors welcome as observers
Agenda:
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Welcome & introductions to delegates & visitors + apologies
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Minutes of last Delegate Meeting (April) & Matters Arising
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EC Report, urgent correspondence
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Reports and discussion:
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RMT Wolverhampton, Cleaners’ Strikes
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UNISON Sandwell Leisure Trust
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UNITE HGV bin drivers’ strike, Coventry
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other delegate reports: ASLEF, CWU, FBU, GMB, MU, NEU, PCS, UCU, UNISON, UNITE plus LP
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Secretary report – Bro Kelleher
- TUC Pensioners Network – Bob Deacon
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Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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5. any other business
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at 8pm
Tony Barnsley branch Sec Sandwell UNISON – how we beat Fire & Rehire
+ Barry Gardiner MP – Campaigning against Fire and Re-hire
https://www.barrygardiner.com/recentnews
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future DELEGATE MEETINGS and EVENTS in 2022, we meet the 3rd Thursday each month @7pm on Zoom until safe, usual venue Unite Office, 6 Victoria Square, Wolverhampton WV1 1LD (next to Sainsbury’s Local at bus station, over bridge from train station)
WB&DTUC Executive Committee meetings 2021 (all dates are Wednesdays at 7.30pm, eight days before delegate meeting)
rules agreed AGM 2020: see https://wolvestuc.org.uk/index.php/wbdtuc/rules
Previous activities
2022
21 April speaker: John Dunn Orgreave Truth & Justice Campaign
17 March – Dr Caitlin Adams, Branch President, UCU at the Open University on the UCU’s ongoing campaign of industrial action
17 February – speaker Haydn Jones of UNITE HGV bin drivers, Coventry
20 Jan AGM -speaker Tony Barnsley UNISON Sandwell Leisure Trust strikes
2021
16 December – speaker Joginder Bains, National Secretary of the Indian Workers’ Association on the Indian Farmers victory
18 November – speaker Mick Rice on Union Shop App
21 October – speaker at 8pm from ACORN, The Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fMIjegLfmY
16 Sept delegate meeting
15 July – speaker Ali Rahimi on the current industrial disputes in Iran
17 June – speaker Sarah Woolley General Secretary BFAWU on the Right to Food campaign
20 May – speaker Simon Dubbins the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Liaison Officer at UNITE the Union -Current situation in Palestine and what trade unionists can do?
1 May – online May Day with speakers, live music and prize quiz
28 April Workers Memorial Day https://youtu.be/eb5hxYIAlv4
15 April – speaker Tony Barnsley, Sec UNISON (Sandwell) on the Sandwell Leisure Trust fire and re-hire dispute
18 March – speaker: Harsev Bains, national Vice President of Indian Workers’ Association(GB) Indian Farmers’ Struggle
18 Feb – speaker on British Gas dispute
January 2021 – AGM speaker Patrick Vernon, social commentator, campaigner, cultural historian and Wolverhampton-born author of “100 Great Black Britons”
There is no August Delegate meeting of WB&DTUC
16th July speakers: Will Cooling – unionisation & #metoo in the professional wrestling industry; Simon Cardy Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign; Rob Miller, Director of Cuba Solidarity Campaign Zoom meeting online
18 June, 7:15pm WB&DTUC Delegate meeting #BlackLivesMatter discussion Zoom meeting online
8 February, Wednesfield High St
16 January 2020, Annual General Meeting WB&DTUC speaker on India’s anti-muslim laws
2019:
Thurs 19 Dec Delegate meeting and social
Thursday 21st November WB&DTUC Delegate meeting speaker Eileen Turnbill Shrewsbury 24 campaign
Thursday 17th October WB&DTUC Delegate meeting – UNITE speaker on HS2
Thursday 19th September WB&DTUC Delegate meeting
Thursday 18th July WB&DTUC Delegate meeting
Sunday 14th July WODENSTOCK 3-6pm Amphitheatre Wednesfield
Thursday 20th June WB&DTUC Delegate meeting speaker on national Trades Union Council Conference by our delegate, Bob Simm PCS
Thursday 16th May WB&DTUC Delegate meeting with speaker Grace Millar UCU on her research into British Mining post nationalisation
Wednesday 1st May, 7pm Workers’ Day @ Pegasus WV6 0QQ
Sunday 28th April Workers’ Memorial Day 12.30pm @cenotaph/Workers’ Memorial Day Tree, W’ton
Thursday 18th April WB&DTUC Delegate meeting with speaker Dr Francisco Domínguez National Secretary Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
Thursday 21st March WB&DTUC Delegate meeting with speaker Lee Barron Secretary Midlands TUC; presentation of TUC Silver Badge of Merit for long service to our President Marie Taylor and Vice President Rob Marris
Thursday 21st February WB&DTUC Delegate meeting with speaker from Police Spies Out of Lives, a campaigning support group working to achieve an end to the sexual and psychological abuse of campaigners and others by undercover police officers.
Heart unions week 9/10 Feb campaigning with flowers in Wednesfield & Bilston
AGM 17 Jan 2019 we showed The Plan 30min film of the pioneering effort by workers at the arms-related company Lucas Aerospace, to defend their jobs by proposing alternative, socially-useful applications of the company’s technology and their own skills.
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