Brighton Hove and District Trades Council: Council Tax Referendum, Strikes and Protests

Friday, 31 January 2014

Council Tax Referendum, Strikes and Protests

As well as strikes and protests by local unions the plans for a referendum on a council tax rise are being debated a number of times over the next week or so. If you can make it down to these please to make the case against austerity and cuts please do! Details below of these and other local actions.

Tuesday 4^th February

Unison Day of Action Protest – support decent pay for council workers

12:30pm Bartholomew Square

http://brightonandhoveunison.org.uk/

Thursday 6^th February

UCU, Unison, Unite – Universities Strike – support decent pay for university workers

Pickets from early AM at Sussex and Brighton Unis. Please head along to show support – more info on days activities to follow

Thursday 6^th February

Debate on Council Tax Referendum hosted by the Argus

7pm Hove Town Hall

Thursday 6^th February

Debate on Council Tax Referendum hosted by Brighton Peoples Assembly

7:30pm St Michaels Community Centre

Saturday 8^th February

Support LGBT and human rights during winter Olympics

Meet Midday at the Clock Tower

https://www.facebook.com/events/1386291254926565/

Monday 10^th February

Debate on Council Tax Referendum hosted by the Brighton Independent Newspaper

Metropole Hotel 7pm Register here to attend

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-big-debate-tickets-10321097681

Tuesday 11^th February

Lobby of East Sussex Council Over Cuts to Services

Organised by East Sussex Unison

8:30am – 10am County Hall, Lewes.

Wednesday 19th February

National Demo Day of Action Against ATOS

Stop the inhumane assessments of the sick and disabled

8:00am Brighton Assessment Centre, Lower Ground Floor West, Lees House, 21-35 Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3GD

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

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.

Friday, 31 January 2014

Council Tax Referendum, Strikes and Protests

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