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Wolverhampton, Bilston & District Trades Union Council (established 1865)

Secretary: Nick Kelleher PO Box 2917 Wolverhampton WV2 2YA This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (07932 797139

Morning Star AGM

Thursday 30th May 2013

7pm @ Carrs Lane Church Centre, Birmingham B4 7SX

The 68th Annual General Meeting of Britain's only socialist daily newspaper.

Cradley Women Chainmakers' Festival

Chainmakers8June13

The ninth FREE TUC Chainmakers’ festival will be held on Saturday 8th June 2013 in Bearmore Mound Playing Fields, Cradley Heath, B64 6DU

next WB&DTUC meeting

7.15pm Thursday 20th June 2013 delegates & all interested trades unionists invited

CND condemns Trident Replacement

PUBLIC MEETING - SCRAP TRIDENT Speaker: BRUCE KENT

Sunday June 9th 3.30pm

Friends Meeting House, Corporation lane, Cotton Hill, Shrewsbury SY1 2NU

Bedroom Tax Protest

Join up to the new Wolverhamton Against the Bedroom Tax Facebook campaign.

BRIEFING for FULL-TIME OFFICERS and SENIOR CONVENORS

Friday 21 June 2013 TUC logo

ORGANISING FOR THE FUTURE!

The Midlands TUC invites you to an essential briefing on young workers and their employment rights.

Teachers' Strike

2013 elections

BNP, far right and nationalist candidates all lose heavily

Halesowen trade unionists sacked

HALESOWEN 4 CAMPAIGN

1st May Wolverhampton Workers' Day

Thursday 1^st May 2014 wil be our next Wolverhampton Workers Day from 7pm @Pegasus, WV6 0QQ

Wolverhampton Workers' Memorial Day

Over a dozen trades union councils organised Workers Memorial day events in the Midlands this weekend.

60 attended Wolverhampton's 22^ndannual commemoration event; wreaths were laid by FBU, UNISON General, UNISON University, UCATT, PCS, CWU & WB&DTUC

Ivan Monkton UNITE NEC spoke on Agricultural Workers' safety and the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board and it's affect on rural poverty.

Warinder Juss (GMB/Thompsons) called for the defeat of the government in order to re-establish the basic health and safety rights that the Tories and Liberals have already cut or still plan to.

Marie Taylor (CYW-UNITE & President WB&DTUC) remembered the 350 so far found dead at the Bangladesh garment factory that had been producing for Primark, Matalan and Mango UK stores.

Rob Marris (NUT) lambasted the governmemnt's announced threat to the Health & Safety Executive and delivered a speech by Steve Witton (UCATT) highlighting the high level of construction industry deaths

Rev.Bill Mash of the Black Country Urban Industrial Mission gave a sermon particularly remembering those affected by industrial disease.

Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living

History of Wolverhampton, Bilston and District Trades Union Council 1865-1990

Trade union courses in Wolverhampton 2013

TUC courses will be delivered at: Bilston Campus, Wellington Road, Wolverhampton WV14 6BT sign up now.....

UNION REPRESENTATIVES STAGE 1
10 x Mondays

HEALTH & SAFETY REPRESENTATIVES STAGE 1
10 x Tuesdays

Justice for the Shrewsbury 24 Pickets

a personal appeal to the labour movement from Ricky Tomlinson:

Dear Brother/Sister,

I am writing to ask you to sign my Downing Street e-petition. The link is: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35394

The deadline for signatures is 27 June 2013 so please sign right away.

We need 100,000 signatures.

National Minimum Wage rates increase

from 1^stOctober 2013:

adult hourly rate of the minimum wage increases from £6.19 to £6.31 another below inflation rise, making the NMW worth less
development rate (which will cover workers aged 18-20 years) will go up from £4.98 to £5.03
rate for 16 to 17-year-olds will rise from £3.68 to £3.72, up by 4p/hour
apprentice minimum wage rate will go from £2.65 to just £2.68 per hour, up just 3p - all apprentices under the age of 19 and those aged 19 and over in the first 12 months of their apprenticeship.

Action For Rail

Action for Rail Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, Bilston & District Trades Union Council helped organise 14 volunteers from RMT, UNITE, UNISON & ASLEF who gave out over 1,000 postcards to send to MPs between 6.30 and 8.30am at Wolverhampton Railway Station on 27th March - a great response.