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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.
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Newcastle Trades Union Council

– known, more colloquially, as “Newcastle TUC”, “Newcastle Trades Council” or simply “The Trades Council”. This is our newly redesigned web site and we shall gradually be adding more material to it as time progresses. The Trades Council is the link between the trade union movement and the wider community in the City of Newcastle.

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