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EM NPC: Derby Silk Mill Festival Saturday 17th September

24/8/2022

Derby Silk Mill Festival Saturday 17th September March starts at 11am Derby City Centre to Rally at Silk Mill

At the East Midlands NPC meeting on 17th August it was agreed to take their banner and a contingent to the Derby Silk Mill Festival on Saturday 17th September.

This a major labour movement event in the East Midlands, find out more about Derby Silk Mill Festival 2022 here

TUC Midlands Festival of Learning – 2 September 2022

20/8/2022

TUC Midlands will be holding a Festival of Learning Event on the 2nd SEPTEMBER 2022 in Birmingham

This free event will be held on Friday 2 September 2022 at the CWU Offices, 47 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3TH. It will be an excellent event with a buffet lunch provided so please sign up and encourage any of your members, friends or activists to come along too.

More information about this TUC Festival of Learning Event here

Here is the link to the Eventbrite page for this event: TUC Midlands Festival of Learning Tickets, Fri 2 Sep 2022 at 10:00 | Eventbrite

Corby Trades Council - meeting July 2022

14/6/2022

Corby Trades Council once played a key role in the area's industrial relations and it would be good to connect with trade unionists to support their campaigns again.

In recent weeks Corby CLP have been in touch with Lee Barron, TUC's Regional Secretary, and agreed to hold a re-launch meeting of the Corby Trades Council, the details are below:

TUC Women Chainmakers’ Festival

21/5/2022

The TUC Women Chainmakers’ Festival is being held on Saturday July 2nd 2022

Taking place annually on the first Saturday in July, it’s a family friendly event bringing alive memories of the past whilst inspiring visions for the future through street theatre, re-enactments, live metalworking, political stalls and speeches, music, children’s activities and entertainment.

Ourselves, Out, Safe, Respected

4/8/2021

GMB Northants is proud to help promote TUC's Pride campaign, by sharing their petition.

TUC WOMEN'S CONFERENCE - 3-5 MARCH 2021

4/2/2021

Register FREE for TUC Women’s Conference to discuss, debate and learn about wins for women at work and the unfinished agenda of women’s equality

TUC LGBT+ CONFERENCE 25-26 FEBRUARY 2021

4/2/2021

Please find below details regarding the TUC LGBT+ Conference which will be a virtual, online event this year, with no delegate system, and is open to LGBT+ trade unionists and allies.

TUC Says It’s not right so many East Midlands workers struggle to feed their families

10/11/2020

Commenting on today’s (Monday) Living Wage Foundation figures which show that there are 423,000 workers in the East Midlands earning under the real Living Wage.

TUC Midlands Regional Secretary Lee Barron said:

“People who work for a living ought to earn a decent living. It’s not right that so many people here in the East Midlands don’t earn enough to cover basic living costs like food for their families or money for rent and bills.

“And many of those struggling to get by will be the key workers getting us through this crisis – such as carers, supermarket staff and delivery drivers.

“The prime minister promised to ‘level up’ Britain. Ministers must start by working with unions to ‘level up’ pay and conditions across the country, including here in the East Midlands.”

Nationally, the Foundation revealed that there are over 5.5 million workers living below the real Living Wage.

TUC Guide to Working in the UK

5/9/2016

Free online TUC Employment Rights guide - ‘Working in the UK - a guide to your rights’ – New languages available

The TUC’s ‘Working in the UK - a guide to your rights’ is now available in four additional languages, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin and Tagalog. This online resource is available in 21 languages altogether and contains information on subjects such as minimum wages, health and safety and how to join a union.

This resource is available to view for free and guides in a selection of the languages are available in PDF downloadable form at www.tuc.org.uk/workingintheuk

Corby Workers Memorial Day Event 2016

21/6/2016

GMB Northants marked Workers Memorial Day (WMD) 2016 with an event by the Steelworker Statue outside The Cube in Corby on the 30th April 2016. Here are some photos of the event which included speaches from Tom Beattie -Leader of Corby Borough Council, Lee Barron - Secretary Midlands TUC, Bianca Todd - Ron Todd Foundation and Gordon Glassford - GMB Northants Branch Secretary