8 hours per week unpaid overtime
Workers in the West Midlands did over £2bn worth of unpaid overtime last year, according to new analysis published by the TUC to mark its annual Work Your Proper Hours […]
Demonstrate at the Tory Party Conference
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How to vote for Labour Party leader
Votes must be received by 12pm on Thursday 10 September for them to count Voting ballots will be sent out on Friday 14 August. You’ll be able to vote by […]
WBDTUC anti-Privatisation demo 28-10-06
Several hundred protestors joined the march & rally that had been called by WB&DTUC & UNISON West Midlands (Saturday 28 October 2006) in protest against continued cuts in NHS services […]
TUC Midlands Equalities week
Monday 25 October – Friday 29 October 2021 12noon every day Zoom The inaugural TUC Midlands Equality Week is here.
Keep Wednesbury Working
protest against 500 jobs cuts Friday 12th June 2015 solidarity demo To Keep Wednesbury Working 1.30pm assemble for 2pm start at Dixon’s Carphone warehose site, Bilston Road, Wednesbury WS10 7JN
Annual Report of Work 1999-2000
WB&DTUC Secretary’s Annual Report of Work for year ending 1999__________________________________________________ “Our goal is to press home the message that the best way to win justice at work and in the […]
Re-instate the Link – Wolverhampton to Walsall Rail Service
The Government and London Midland Train operating company have axed Wolverhampton to Walsall rail services. Commuters now face lengthy bus connections or will get in their cars and clog the […]
Save Sedgley Fire Station
Dudley North MP Ian Austin's campaign to save Sedgley Fire Station from closure. Austin met local firefighters and supporters and pledged to do all he could […]
Network Rail Strike
The RMT strike in Network Rail 24 hours from Thursday 4th June 2015and 48 hours from 5pm on Tuesday 9th June, along with action short of strike for the week beginning […]
Real wages down in the West Midlands still
Workers in the West Midlands still not better off than 11 years ago, TUC analysis reveals UK workers suffering the “worst pay squeeze” in 200 years, warns union federation Government has failed to deal […]
CAMPAIGN AGAINST UNION BUSTING
by Mark Serwotka, General Secretary PCS
WOMEN AT WORK WEEK
TUC Midlands Women in Leadership 2021 course
millions are due to lose their vote on 1st December 2015
the House of Lords supported the Government, by just 11 votes, to bring forward the full implementation of Individual Electoral Register (IER) by 12 months. These changes will see up […]
Seven years of wage falls
West Midlands workers would be over £80 a week better off had pay risen at pre-recession rate This is the seventh year that average weekly earnings have been falling – […]
Umbrella Companies – UCATT
Join UCATT in the Midlands to sayNo More Exploiting of Building Workers By Umbrella Companies Over recent years the construction workers’ Union, UCATT, has been waging a campaign on […]
Britain needs a pay rise – TUC mass demonstration
Saturday 18 October 2014 TUC mass demonstration in London under the banner of Britain Needs a Pay Rise.
Miners’ Strike 30th anniversary
On the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners strike, we were lucky to be able to have one John Harris, of the photographic documenters of the strike to […]
Government cuts
Cuts to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme were approved on Thursday 1 November 2012 by a Committee of MPs, although Labour MPs voted against the cuts.
3million workers set to lose rights
if Government plans to extend the qualifying period for protection against unfair dismissal from one year to two years go ahead