next WB&DTUC meeting

Thursday 15th September 2022 @7-15pm,

speaker @ 8pm 

Agenda:

1. Welcome & introductions to delegates & visitors + apologies

2. Minutes of last Delegate Meeting (July) & Matters Arising

3. EC Report, urgent correspondence

4. Reports and discussion:

• • UCU/UNISON Wolverhampton University

  • RMT – Wolverhampton Cleaners’ strike and national rail strikes

  • UNITE – HGV bin drivers’ strike, Coventry

• • ASLEF, CWU, FBU, GMB, MU, NEU, PCS, UNISON plus LP

  • Secretary report – NIck Kelleher
  • TUC Pensioners Network – Bob Deacon

  • Wolverhampton Palestine Solidarity Campaign

5. any other business

6. at 8pm speaker: tbc

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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 July – Enslavement links project, discussion on way forward, led by Di Weaver

16 June – Dr Catherine Lamond, on the 500 job cuts threatened at Wolverhampton University

19 May – Tony Barnsley branch Sec Sandwell UNISON and Barry Gardiner MP  – Campaigning against Fire and Re-hire

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

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.