Meeting Information ...
Newcastle TUC normally meets at 7 pm on the first Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is actually on Wednesday 4 June 2025, and will be in-person/Zoom hybrid. Please email secretary@newcastle-tuc.org.uk for details
Tyne & Wear May Day 2025
The 2025 March and Rally was held on Saturday 3 May and was followed by a social at the Tyneside Irish Centre.
Click here to see the 2025 brochure on issuu.com. ERB meeting
'Employment Rights Bill' public meeting
The Employment Rights Bill - why we need it, and how to strengthen it.
Report: Newcastle TUC/Tyne & Wear CATUC public meeting on Thursday 6 March 2025.
Speakers: Martin Wright, Unite regional legal officer), James Harrison, director of the Institute of Employment Rights; and Joel Hamilton, sacked PCS rep at HMRC Benton Park View
Contribution by James Harrison: ERB weaknesses and what can be done about them.
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LUCAS REPORT
JOBS NOT MISSILES
The Lucas Aerospace Shop Stewards’ Combine’s Alternative Corporate Plan of 1976 was a pioneering effort by workers at the arms company to retain jobs by proposing alternative, socially-useful applications of the company’s technology and their own skills. A 40th anniversary conference, sponsored by (among others) Newcastle TUC, was held in Birmingham on 26 November 2016.
Read More "A local conference was held in Newcastle on 9 November 2019."
'William Blake at the Bridge Hotel'
Poetry collection launched on Wednesday 27 October 2021, Bridge Hotel, Newcastle
Sponsored by UNISON Newcastle city branch and Newcastle Trades Union Council, Culture Matters launched William Blake at the Bridge Hotel: Ten Newcastle Poets, edited by Paul Summers.
The writers presented are diverse in style but unified by their progressive politics and class. Their visions of the city and its people straddle an epoch which has witnessed deindustrialisation and the dismantling of traditional working-class communities into a more nuanced, multicultural and complex reality.
Read the whole book online here! IN MEMORIAM BOB MURDOCH
Newcastle TUC deeply regrets to announce the passing of longstanding delegate and outstanding trades unionist Bob Murdoch Funeral 2.15 pm Thursday 29 May at the West Road Crematorium. Reception after at the Jingling Gate, Stamfordham Road. Deepest sympathy to the family.
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