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 Come and celebrate our local history at this year’s Chainmakers’ Festival—right here in the heart of Cradley Heath!
This special day brings our community together to remember the incredible women chainmakers’ of 1910, whose fight for fair pay helped shape workers' rights across the UK.
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 Derby Area TUC and The wider SMF Organising Group are again organising this important and historic Trade Union event, supported by The TUC, celebrating The struggle of The Silk Mill workers-locked out by their employers for non-acceptance of a pay cut and seeking better working conditions via Trades Union membership- sound familiar?
Find out more on Facebook here  GRASP Sisterhood are holding an event with Juno Women's Aid, on Thursday 20 March 2025.
All month, GMB is celebrating diverse women from across our union and beyond. It is women like us, women like you, who change the world. Often simply through our small acts of rebellion.  The next meeting of the GMB Midlands Regional Retired Members Association is, taking place on Wednesday 19th March 2025 at 11am. The meeting will be held at GMB Union office, 2 Birmingham Road, Halesowen B63 3HP. Please take 2 minutes to complete this survey, which includes questions about your attendance, in person or online, accessibility and dietary requirements no later than Friday 14th March 2025.
 A date for your diary:the TUC Women Chainmakers' Festival 2025 will be on Saturday the 28th June 2025
 Funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and in partnership with The Core at Corby Cube and North Northamptonshire County Council, this experience tells the story of Corby's steel making past and is the culmination of over a year's work finding, capturing and presenting the real stories from the real people of Corby.
If you want to see some more about the project, check out the project website at www.steeltowntales.co.uk. The experience will be running in the Savoy Cinema, Corby from 20th July 2024 until 18th August 2024. For tickets and more information, please click here.  Sharing here a few updates from the TUC. All the detail is below. Resources hub for tackling sexual harassment
We've brought together all of our existing resources, research, training and new content on sexual harassment into one section on the TUC website, as a useful starting place for tackling harassment wherever we find it. Please share with reps and members so they can find resources easily. Training for women interested in becoming health and safety reps. Links to info: Tuesday 16 July 1400-1700 and Thursday 18 July 1000 - 1300. Equality reception at TUC Congress 2024 We will be hosting an equality reception at TUC Congress 2024, 5.45pm - 7.15pm on Tuesday 10 September. We will share more information soon and a registration link. The reception will celebrate the equality wins shared by unions for the equality audit 2024. The reception will be open to delegates and non-delegates. Please do encourage your delegations and other members/officers who may have contributed to the audit and the wins included in it to come along. More info coming soon!  Following the postponement of the Women Chainmakers Festival because of the General Election date, please find information relating to the rearranged date Sunday 15th September 2024.
 Our branch secretary Alan Irwin will be undertaking a Charity Cycle Ride in Cuba, cycling approximately 400km in November 2022 to raise vital funds for educational projects in Cuba and delivering desperately needed material aid direct to a school for blind and visually impaired children.
They will be visiting local healthcare centres and neighbourhood community projects along the way and of course visiting many cultural and historical places wherever they rest their weary legs. |
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