Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
Blackburn and District Trades Union Council
For a reason now obscured by late nineteenth century smog the Trades Council’s “year” runs like a “finacial year” – from April to March. The early months of the calendar year are consequently the last months of our operational year, when a lot of our time is taken up with encouraging local Trade Union Branches…
We must apologise for the delay in reporting here on how our 2025 Young Worker survey and meeting went. A Report did go to our November Trades Council meeting, but we neglected to follow up here. You may remember that we attempted to do two things. Firstly, to run a local survey. And, secondly, to…
According to the IPSOS “Issues Index” 51% of people name “immigration” as the most important issue facing Britain today. Its rise up the index has no doubt been fuelled by the visibility of unauthorised entries by hazardous routes, but the concerns being expressed cover a much wider field: fears about population growth, about public services, about…
Delegates at October’s Trades Council meeting received reports that illustrated a variety of the ways in which the dynamics of employment can provoke circumstances in which workers need to combine to take action to defend their interests. European intentions to increase defence spending don’t appear to have fed through to the industry’s shop floor. BAE…