TUC Women Chainmakers’ Festival of Cradley Heath
The next TUC Women Chainmakers’ festival will be Saturday 28th June 2025. The Midlands TUC run this event annually in Cradley Heath.
strike
UNITE wins strike at ArcelorMittal
After 34 days of strikes management agreed to new pay talks at ArcelorMittal (Wednesfield) and (15-12-23) voted to accept a new backdated two year pay deal.
Strikers’ march in Wolverhampton
PCS, ASLEF, UCU, NEU strikes Wed 1st February 2023. 500,000 on strike nationally, with 84 Protect the Right to Strike rallies including Wolverhampton.
13 & 15 October mass national strikes
Health workers went on strike on Monday 13th October 2014 for the first time in 30 years over pay. Local Government workers strike of 14 October was suspended awaiting consultation […]
Civil Servants’ strike
A long weekend of disruption by PCS union members, including those in Wolverhampton, is taking place from 5-8 April 2013.
pensions strike on March 28th
PCS and NUT are now expected to decide joint national strike action in April. The proposed national strike in continued defence of pensions is now regional with NUT and UCU […]
November 30th Pensions Justice strike
Wolverhampton’s biggest strike in a generation. 30-11-2011 There were mass closures of services across the city. After morning picketing from early hours in the morning, 2,000 strikers assembled in front of Civic […]
June 30th strike
Thursday June 30th Wolverhampton STRIKE RALLY Following early morning pickets across workplaces in Wolverhampton with 350 schools closed across the Black Country, strikers marched through the City centre from the […]
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 […]