The progressive voice of Sheffield's Trade Union movement
Please help us fight the Fire Service cuts! The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) need your help to stop another devastating (and unnecessary*) round of austerity cuts to OUR Fire Service 84 Firefighters’ jobs are at risk Fire engine crews to be reduced from 5 to 4 firefighters 50% cut in Sheffield night cover; to be reduced to one …
Wreath laying ceremony and speeches by The Memorial Tree outside Sheffield Town Hall, Pinstone Street 1230hrs- 1330hrs Friday 26th April 2019 “Remember the Dead – Fight for the Living” Opened by a representative of the Lord Mayor Cllr. Majid Majid And presided over by Sheffield TUC President Bob Jeffery Paul Blomfield MP and Louise Haigh MP (On behalf …
“It affects us all!” Thanks to everyone for making this campaign a success. We have brought together a brilliant coalition of trade union branches, Labour and other party branches and a number of campaign organisations to fight back against universal credit. We don’t want it tinkering with. We don’t want them to pause and think. We say STOP AND SCRAP …
Join us at our next event in our fight to Stop and Scrap Universal Credit! When? 11am til 1pm Tuesday 12th March Where? outside Bailey Court Job Centre on West Street As the Government’s flagship new policy Universal Credit is increasingly exposed for the massive cut on benefits that it is, and the Government is put increasingly on the …
On this International Women’s Day we call on Sheffield’s employers and others, including national and multinational firms with operations in our city, to do more to tackle the scourge of the gender inequalities. Nearly half a century on form the Equal Pay Act, Sheffield TUC1 is calling for greater action on the gender pay gap …
It is 100 years since the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, when British troops killed 1,000 Indian innocent people and seriously injured 1,500 in ten minutes of indiscriminate shooting. Our country still hasn’t officially apologised for this barbaric act, which was meant as a lesson in response to a peaceful protest calling for democracy. In 1997 Queen …
“It affects us all” Campaign Objectives Sheffield TUC has called together all supporting organisations to collaborate in a joint campaign to Stop and Scrap Universal Credit. In order to launch this campaign effectively we are asking those supporting organisations to sign up to the following objectives, as agreed at an initial meeting held on 17th …