Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
Most Trade Unionists would agree that one of the big issues facing us in Britain today is the decline in Trade Union membership since the 1970s. One of the reasons we have partnered with the Ella Barker School of Organising to run an online session on Tuesday 3rd May: Strategy, Power and Union Resurgence (actionnetwork.org)…
On 17th March the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) announced that it intended to make large-scale office closures all over the country. Amongst the offices affected is Cardwell Place in Blackburn. April’s Trades Council meeting agreed to support the PCS campaign against these closures and to write to Blackburn’s MP, Kate Hollern, on the…
Any organisation, like our Trades Council, which must depend entirely on volunteers, fears one threat above all others – that there will be no-one available to take on the roles necessary for it to function effectively. At this year’s Annual General Meeting, which took place last week, we found ourselves within a whisker of this…
Current legislation on British Pensions means that the State Pension age will rise to 67 in 2028 and to 68 by 2046. It also provides for regular Reviews. The first of these took place in 2017, and it said that the Second Review should consider bringing forward the date for the State Pension age to…
Workers’ Memorial Day, held on 28 April every year, brings together workers and their representatives from all over the world to “remember the dead and fight for the living”. In 2022 the theme is: “Make safe and healthy work a fundamental right”. Join us in Blackburn at 11.30am on Thursday 28th April as we return…