Meet 3.30pm Hove Town Hall, July 22
Details have been announced about cuts to local services in Brighton and Hove. See below for more information. These cuts will be agreed by the Tory Cabinet at their meeting on Thursday July 22 at 4pm, Hove Town Hall.
There will be a protest outside from 3.30pm against these cuts and job losses. Deputations of residents and youth organisations are coming to speak at the meeting. Please do come if you can to add your voice in opposition.
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We now have details of the £3.6m in-year cuts to sevices in Brighton and Hove. These are a mixture of the ConDem Communities Secretary Eric Pickles' cuts and some announced recently by ConDem Education Secretary Michael Gove. These cuts are being made by the local Tory minority-led council who have the final responsibility as to where the axe will fall.
- £700,000 to be cut from the Connexions service that helps young people into jobs and training.
- £435,000 cut from the Schools Improvement budget that pays advisers to work with schools to raise educational standards.
- £48,000 from the extended schools budget. This budget enabled schools to develop specialities and services outside of the core curriculum with community involvement.
- £193,000 from the Road Safety budget and £1.24m from transport capital projects. The Queen's Park safer Routes to School programme funding is cut by 50 per cent.
- Free swimming gets a reprive until April 2011 thanks to the local PCT putting in some funding (before it gets abolished) as part of its reducing obesity plan.
- Youth Capital Fund, £61,000 cut.
- Schools capital funding, losing £660,000.
- Surestart funding will be "managed down". So far £300,000 capital funding is being cut in addition to the £300,000 revenue cut by the local Tories.
- £120,000 Housing Delivery Grant — a 100 per cut. This used to provide staff who work to increase the supply of homes coming forward in both the private and public sector.
- £590,000 Playbuilder programme for year two providing refurbished or new children's playgrounds.
- 41 jobs to go as a result of these cuts alone.
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Meeting Dates
Meetings take place on the second Wednesday of the month
We alternate between executive committee meetings and full trades council meetings. All delegates are encouraged to attend full meetings and any trade union member may attend as a visitor.
Email BrightonTradesCouncil@gmail.com to be informed of meeting dates and times.
How to get involved
Contact: In the first instance contact the General Secretary Andy Richards at brightontradescouncil@gmail.com
Trades union councils consist of representatives of trade unions or branches of trade unions which meet within the area covered by that council, or which have members working or living in the area. A union branch will normally affiliate to the trades unions council in the area in which it meets.
Trades union councils consist of representatives of trade unions or branches of trade unions which meet within the area covered by that council, or which have members working or living in the area. A union branch will normally affiliate to the trades unions council in the area in which it meets.
Who are we and what do we do?
Trades union councils bring together trade unions to campaign around issues effecting working people in their workplaces and local communities.
Trades Union Councils consist of trade unions or branches of
Trades Union Councils consist of trade unions or branches of
trade unions which meet within the area covered by that council, or which have members working or living in the area.
A union branch will normally affiliate to the trades union council in the area in which it meets. Each branch will then send delegates to the trades union council's meetings. These branches pay an affiliation fee. Their delegates elect officers from amongst themselves to represent the views and priorities of the constituent branches and to take responsibility for working for and supporting the policy of Congress and the Trades Union Council (TUC) General Council. This is because trades union councils are registered with the TUC, rather than being entirely independent bodies. The Annual Conference of Trades Union Councils takes place over a May weekend.
Brighton Hove & District Trades Council was first formed in the function room above The Eagle pub in Gloucester Road, Brighton in 1890.
Aims and objectives
> Raise public awareness of rights at work and the union role in enforcing those rights.
> Promote organising and recruitment drives to build union membership.
> Support union and community campaigns for dignity and respect in the workplace and beyond.
With the threats of racism and fascism, changes in the labour market and debates over the future of public services, the trade union voice in the community is as important as ever.
The capacity of trades union councils to provide a local response and to organise trade unionists into coalitions with other progressive forces is crucial. They do this by providing services which keep local trade unionists up to date with developments within the wider trade union movement, and by taking up relevant local industrial and community issues.