SERTUC activities and news

SERTUC activities and news

Levellers Day seminar, march and debate

Friday 13 May 8pm seminar at Alvescot Lodge

·         Trish Lavelle CWU, Revd Professor Mark Chapman, Dr Ariel Hessayon, Megan Dobney SERTUC
·         Some B&B rooms available at Alvescot Lodge traceybushrod@btconnect.com price £38 per person
·         Register for the seminar at sertuc@tuc.org.uk
·         https://levellersday.wordpress.com/friday-seminar-2016/

Saturday 14 May 10.30 to 3.30 at Burford

·         Commemoration at Burford Church with the Revd Professor Mark Chapman and the Sea Green Singers
·         Parade from the church to Burford Recreation Ground with Cry Havoc Morris, Pikemen, trade union and community and campaign banners, for stalls, refreshments, music, dancing and the Debate with John Rees, Adrian Arbib, Megan Dobney
·         Book a stall for £25 at mdobney@tuc.org.uk
·         https://levellersday.wordpress.com/whats-happening-2016/

Day of Portugal

Sunday 12 June on Streatham Common, there will be a SERTUC stall in collaboration with Lambeth trades council and our comrades from the CGTP. This will support our project organising Portuguese and Polish workers in the East of England. More info from lheselden@tuc.org.uk

Commemorating the Irish Famine

Sunday 22 May outside Congress House in the heart of the neighbourhood formerly home to many Irish migrants. More info from Austin Harney au5tin67@yahoo.co.uk

Burston Strike School Rally

Sunday 4 September with Mick Whelan ASLEF, TUC President Liz Snape, Attila the Stockbroker, Steve White and the Protest Family, NASUWT Brass Band, Red Flag, Grace Petrie, Banner Theatre 1^st May Band https://burstonstrikeschool.wordpress.com/2016-rally/

Trades Council actions

Establishing a TC in Basildon & Thurrock

Tuesday 17 May 7.30pm Basildon with Laurie Heselden SERTUC, Riccardo Latorre FBU, Teresa Mackay TUCJCC contactacoburn@blueyonder.co.uk 07973 414 555

Establishing a TC in Thanet

Wednesday 22 June 7.30pm Broadstairs with Megan Dobney SERTUC, contact stumac59@sky.com Meeting, film and refreshments…

Battersea & Wandsworth  trades council: young workers

Wednesday 1 June from 7pm come and have a drink on the trades council at Bread & Roses pub in Clapham. Here’s the infohttps://www.facebook.com/events/1713070152308064/

Waltham Forest trades council

·         Public meeting Saturday 21 May 2pm on the Walthamstow housing masterplan, more from wftradescouncil@gmail.com07952 283 558
·         Public meeting Thursday 12 May 7pm Defend Your NHS, more from wftradescouncil@gmail.com 07952 283 558

Greater London Association of Trades Councils

Following the May Day march in London, you can hear the speeches from Clerkenwell Green (Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnel, Frances O’Grady) here http://www.londonmayday.org/ plus the Trafalgar Square speeches

Disputes

PCS dispute at the National Museum Wales

In a reflection of the National Gallery dispute, workers at the National Museum Wales are on strike following another attack on low paid workers’ terms and conditions – information here, please take action as requested by PCS http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/wales/whats-new-in-wales.cfm/media-release-union-steps-up-strike-action-in-response-to-museum-bosses-intransigence

Other actions/events

Tolpuddle Festival

15 to 17 July 2016 the annual event commemorating the contribution of the Tolpuddle Martyrs http://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/welcome

Britain@Work: The winter of Discontent

Symposium Saturday 14 May 11am @ Unite HQ with Professor Linda Clarke, Rodney Bickerstaffe, Helen Hague, Nick Jones, Michael Gold, Ann Field http://www.ohs.org.uk/oral-labour-history-its-value-for-trade-unions-the-winter-of-discontent-19789/

Marx Memorial Library events

·         Thursday 19 May lecture 7pm “The 1926 General Strike” by Professor Roger Seifert http://www.marx-memorial-library.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/event/info&Itemid=216&reset=1&id=73
·         Thursday 26 May 7pm Grunwick Dispute film screening with Professor Mary Davis http://www.marxlibrary.org.uk/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/event/info&Itemid=216&reset=1&id=77
·         Thursday 2 June lecture 7pm with Phil Ballard on the 1966 Seafarers’ Dispute http://www.marxlibrary.org.uk/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/event/info&Itemid=216&reset=1&id=74
·         Thursday 16 June lecture 7pm with Andrew Murray on Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalismhttp://www.marxlibrary.org.uk/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/event/info&Itemid=216&reset=1&id=75
·         Exhibition: Socialist Opposition to World War 1 will be at Congress House 25 June to 11 July

Immigrants of Spitalfields Festival

19 to 21 June and all details here http://immigrantsofspitalfields.org.uk/

Townsend Productions present “Dare Devil Rides to Jarama”

Details here http://www.townsendproductions.org.uk/feedback/test and it will be on in the following towns in our Region from September to December

·         Bedford

·         Aylesbury

·         Lowestoft

·         Peckham

·         Marx Memorial Library

·         Hertford

·         Southsea

·         Margate

·         Bedford

·         Luton

·         Oxford

A job…

Greater Manchester Hazards Centre

Coordinator, Manchester, permanent full-time job subject to funding, closing date Tuesday 10 May, details herehttp://www.gmhazards.org.uk/

To add to this newsletter contact mdobney@tuc.org.uk

Megan Dobney

Regional Secretary

Southern & Eastern Region TUC

SERTUC is the TUC in London, the South East, and East of England

SERTUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS

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