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PRESS RELEASE Monday, 18 October 2021 93% vote for strike ballot to win back their agreement **** Sheffield TUC says “First Bus must restore safe working hours for drivers in Sheffield” *** Long hours =driver shortage = unreliable bus services “We are fully in support of UNITE bus drivers in Sheffield who are demanding First …
Up to 1000 jobs secured at Rotherham and Stocksbridge *** Privateer Sanjeev Gupta finds £50M to restart steel manufacturing “Sheffield TUC welcomes the announcement this week that Liberty Steel plants at Rotherham and Stocksbridge will reopen and begin making steel again” said Martin Mayer, Secretary Sheffield TUC. “This ends a long period of acute uncertainty …
PRESS RELEASE -Wednesday 8th September 2021 Help comes too little and too late for many struggling families *** Make the rich pay, not low paid workers! Of all the options available to pay for social care, national insurance is easily the worst *** Care sector is overstretched, understaffed, underpaid and fragmented. Government offers no solution! …
ROLE ADVERTISEMENT: Union Organiser Introduction Sheffield Needs a Pay Rise is an initiative of Sheffield Trades Union Council (Sheffield TUC) in partnership with the Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU). An increasingly large section of the UK’s economy is built on the backs of under-unionised workers in service industries. Despite being profitable …
PRESS RELEASE Friday, 30 July 2021 Saturday 31st July, from 11am to 1pm. Outside Sheffield Town Hall ***** Trade unions, Climate groups, students and other campaigns join forces to talk about the need to change our transport systems *** It’s time to talk about the climate in the build up to COP 26 talks in November …
“The only sensible decision we’ve heard about our steel industry for some years” says Sheffield TUC Sheffield Trade Union Council today welcomed the Conservative Government’s decision to secure the future of Sheffield Forgemasters by taking it back into public ownership. “Finally the Government has seen sense and taken over Sheffield Forgemasters to secure its future …
“We deplore the abusive messages sent to Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka.” **** TAKING THE KNEE IS NOT “GESTURE POLITICS” When government ministers seemingly condone fans booing the “taking the knee”, the racists are emboldened ***** Tory anti-immigrant rhetoric and their “hostile environment” is fanning the flames of racism *** Sheffield Stand Up …
Solidarity with Palestinians Resisting Ethnic Cleansing and Violence from Israeli Security Forces *** We condemn the Israeli bombing of civilian areas in Gaza ** Protest rally today 6pm Tuesday 11th May outside Sheffield Town Hall Sheffield TUC is supporting protest action called tonight by Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Sheffield Labour Friends of Palestine in support of the …
The Shrewsbury 24 Campaign is delighted to announce that after 15 years we have finally achieved victory. The Court of Appeal has today quashed the convictions of the North Wales building workers who were tried for picketing offences in 1973-74. The lead picket, Des Warren was sent to prison for three years and blacklisted upon …
PRESS RELEASE Sheffield TUC slams “Austerity-in-Disguise” Budget No Action – to deal with record levels of poverty and inequality No Action – to fund cash-strapped public services e.g. NHS and Councils No Action – to fund public investment in a green recovery No Action – to “build back better” and not simply return to how …