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Newcastle TUC is currently meeting by Zoom at 7 pm on the first Wednesday of each month. Please email secretary@newcastle-tuc.org.uk for details
Tyne & Wear May Day 2022
Newcastle TUC urges all trade unionists to turn out for the social on Friday 29 April and the march and rally on Saturday 30 April.
Click here to see the whole brochure on issuu.com. Work Programme 2021-22
Trades Union Councils Programme Of Work 2021-2022
The TUC Trades Union Councils campaign plan for 2021-22 has not yet been received. Based on the decisions of the 2021 Annual Conference of Trades Union Councils, it will set out what our movement will do together, over the coming year. It’s our manifesto for working people. It complements the campaigns and industrial priorities of individual unions, and offers a platform for members of different unions to work together on campaigns locally, through trades councils, regionally and nationally.
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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' Launch Event
Launched on Wednesday 27 October, 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!
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