Brighton Hove and District Trades Council: MEETING POSTPONED! Save Bright Start nursery public meeting!

Wednesday 1 December 2010

MEETING POSTPONED! Save Bright Start nursery public meeting!

MEETING POSTPONED!
Consultation deadline also extented until Monday November 6

Save Bright Start nursery public meeting
7.30pm Friday December 3
Hanover Room, Brighthelm Centre
Click here to join the Facebook group

Brighton and Hove City council want to close Bright Start Nursery to save money. Come and here the case for keeping a well established and respected nursery open.

Speakers so far:
LORD BASSAM of BRIGHTON
(former Bright Start parent,Labour Chief Whip in House ofLords)
DAVE RUSSELL
(Hollingbury bin depot GMB branch,which beat Brighton council pay cuts in 2009)
CAROLINE LUCAS MP
BRIGHT START PARENT
UNISON NATIONAL SPEAKER
PHOENIX NURSERY WORKER
(their campaign stopped Brighton uni closing them down earlier this year)
Other speakers may include Brighton Stop the Cuts Coalition, a 6th form student on the schools walkout, and an NUJ Argus striker.

Speakers should be brief to allow some time to discuss the campaign, how it links unions and service users and its place in the anti-cuts campaign.

ORGANISED BY BRIGHTON AND HOVE UNISON BRANCH
Supported by Brighton Stop the Cuts Coalition

Please sign the petition if you haven't already
http://www.petition.co.uk/savebrightstartnursery

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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

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.

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> 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.

Wednesday 1 December 2010

MEETING POSTPONED! Save Bright Start nursery public meeting!

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