Monday 22nd January Better Buses S Yorks campaign meeting
2pm on Zoom on the usual link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84236698968?pwd=R3NsbzFpVDAwY29hd2NKYnl2QlF1QT09
Meeting ID: 842 3669 8968 Passcode: 698590
Among other items we’ll be discussing plans for a (hoped for) celebration at the special SYMCA meeting on 13th February…..
We got good publicity for last week’s “waiting…” event with local TV and press coverage. Thanks to everyone who joined the event.
Tuesday 23rd January Sheffield TUC Delegate Meeting
7pm till 9pm. Trades and Labour Club, 200 Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QQ
Trade union members who are not delegates are welcome to attend as visitors but may not vote.
Thursday 25th January “Workers Plan for Steel” UNITE open meeting
6pm to 8pm Trades and Labour Club, SheffieldS2 5QQ Follow the money 💴
Owner of Tata raked in £3billion profit last year while paying out £1.4billion in dividends. Rishi Sunak’s govt gave £500m from UK taxpayers to build a new arc furnace that won’t make up for the 2800 jobs it culled. #SaveUKsteel
Sharon Graham – General Secretary, Unite the Union; Tata’s pleas of poverty have been exposed as a sham. They are making money hand over fist and will only profit from bringing in more Indian and Dutch steel to the UK if we cut capacity. It is unbelievable the UK government is going along with this. Rather than demanding the investment comes with jobs guarantees, they are giving Tata Steel UK half a billion of taxpayers’ money to slash its workforce and flood the UK with foreign steel. Unite For A Workers’ Economy
Saturday 27th January Protect the Right to Strike: National march and rally in Cheltenham 12 noon Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham, 12:30 march departs through town centre to Pittville Park (approximately 1 hour walk). 13:30 – rally in Pittville Park
PS We are not aware of any transport from Sheffield
Will you join the demonstration to defend our right to strike in Cheltenham? Celebrate our history. Protest against the government. Stand up for your rights.
Union members from across the country will gather in Cheltenham to mark 40 years since Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government attacked trade union rights at GCHQ.
Union members were told to resign their membership or be sacked. But after a long campaign by the workers and their families, and the solidarity of the whole union movement, they were reinstated when an incoming Labour government repealed the ban.
Now the Tories are attacking the fundamental human right to strike once again.
Coaches to Cheltenham are being arranged by unions and other groups around the country, with many places subsidised or free. As they become available, we will be listing coach information and how to book. Take a look at the current coach options here.
Saturday 27th January Sheffield Save Our NHS Stall
Outside the MOOR MARKETS – apologies for the change this is due to most members sending apologies for the 20TH JAN
Also, leafleting on THURSDAY 18TH @ Hallamshire Hospital 12 noon till 2pm Outside Outpatients entrance and THURSDAY 25TH @ Northern General Hospital 12 noon till 2pm outside Huntsman building is going ahead as planned.
SEE YOU ALL ON ONE OF THE THURSDAYS OR ON SATURDAY 27TH 12 NOON MOOR MARKETS.
Many Thanks
Mick tel: 07380139142 Please can you let me know if you can attend the Stall
Wednesday 31st January ASLEF strikes in Sheffield
ASLEF Picket Line Cross Turner Street. ASLEF drivers based in Sheffield will take strike action on Northern Trains and TransPennine as part of ASEF’s national wave of strike action
There will be an overtime ban across all 16 companies from Monday 29th January until Tuesday 6th February that will affect ALL services.
Drivers on LNER will also observe an overtime ban from Wednesday 7th until Saturday 10th February because of threat to use Minimum Services legislation
Strike days for the diaries:
Monday 5th, Tuesday 6th, Wednesday 7th, Thursday 8th, Friday 9th February: LNER
Tuesday 30th January: Southeastern, GTR Southern/Gatwick Express, GTR Great Northern Thameslink, SWR Island Line, South Western Railway Depot Drivers, South Western Railway mainline drivers
Wednesday 31st January: Northern Trains, TransPennine Trains
Friday 2nd February: Greater Anglia, C2C
Saturday 3rd February: West Midlands Trains, Avanti West Coast, East Midlands Railway
Monday 5th February: Great Western Railway, CrossCountry, Chiltern
Thursday 1st February “How Do We Beat The Minimum Services Levels?”
7pm online discussion. Register using this link:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvfu6oqzguH9ELhHA_p3fDSl8Mrp2N7PRt
Troublemakers At Work is a network of rank-and-file trade unionists in Britain, launched after a conference in Manchester in July 2023. We are organised by a democratic committee, without affiliation to political parties or particular unions. We support each other in organising to win change in our workplaces and unions.
Our next online public meeting, on 1 February 2024, will be about the latest anti-strike law – the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 – and how we can resist it and fight for a full right to strike. Click here for further details and registration. Download the Troublemakers’ leaflet for the right to strike and join the TUC demonstration for the right to strike on Saturday 27 January.
Wednesday 7th February Rally for Climate Emergency
1-2pm Sheffield Town Hall XR and SYCA are holding a rally outside a Sheffield Council meeting to mark the 5 year anniversary of Sheffield declaring a climate emergency. “We’ll be there!” says Better Buses South Yorks Campaign.
Sunday 11th February Fighting for Anti Racist Workplaces
National Education Union HQ, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BB.
TUC and Stand Up tom Racism trade union conference
Speakers include:
Daniel Kebede, NEU general secretary; Fran Heathcote, PCS general secretary elect; Shavanah Taj, Wales TUC general secretary; Kudsia Batool, TUC Head of Equalities; Riz Hussein, TUC Race Equality Officer; Chris Weaver NASUWT National Official; Weyman Bennet & Sabby Dhalu Stand Up to Racism co convenors & more
12th -18th February 2024 – TUC HeartUnions Week-Let’s grow our movement!
Last year we saw huge strikes and massive wins for workers. But to remain strong we need to see hundreds more joining a union or stepping up to be a leader in their workplace.
The only way our movement is going to grow is by people like you getting out on the street and having conversations with others about being in a union.
So, can you lead a recruitment stall in your local area?
- Run your event any time during HeartUnions week, 12th– 18th February
- Sign up to take part: https://tuccampaigns.typeform.com/heartunions
- When you’re ready with a date and location for your event, make sure to add it to our map hereso we can keep track of all the activity!
- We will send you a pack of resources and guidance, and support you along the way!
And if you have any questions, you can drop me an email here at campaigns@megaphone.org.uk Thank you for stepping up again,
Lois, Megaphone UK
Tuesday 13th February Greener Jobs Alliance AGM
12.00-1.30pm GJA hosts open meeting and discussion of events at COP28 | Greener Jobs Alliance. It will be an opportunity to identify our priority campaigns for the year ahead. This will be held online and in person at UCU Head Office, London (nearest tube Mornington Crescent). Further details with agenda and joining instructions will be circulated shortly.
Please circulate to anyone who may be interested.
Tahir Latif, GJA Secretary
Here’s the link to our discussion on the outcomes of CoP28.
https://greenerjobsalliance.co.uk/gja-hosts-open-meeting-and-discussion-of-events-at-cop28/
Wednesday 14th February Sheffield Save Our NHS Meeting
7pm via zoom
Monday 19th February Documentaries from Latin America
Doors open 5.30pm Alborada Films @ Theatre Deli Arley Street Sheffield S2 4QP brought to you by Chile50YearsUK. Exciting double bill showing of the great documentaries;
1815hrs Fragments of a Dream and 1935hrs The People’s Train of Culture.
Exploring the relationship between politics and culture, this is the first time these docs will be shown in Sheffield and will be followed by Q&A. Tickets for sale here https://www.tickettailor.com/events/alboradafilms/1113512
You can also catch up on Alborada @ The World Transformed: Allende 50 years since the Coup and The Americas Uncovered: Chile’s Chicago Boys on Alborada’s great website, amongst other gems.
Tuesday 27th February Sheffield TUC 167th AGM
7pm Trades and Labour Club, Duke Street, Sheffield S2 5QQ
Speaker invited Musheir Al-Farra, Chair, Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Election of Officers and Executive Committee
Annual Report
Financial Accounts 2023
Open to non-delegates who are trade union members. Not a delegate? Ask your branch to affiliate to Sheffield TUC and nominate you as a delegate!
Wednesday 28th February “Lions of Rotherham”
7.30pm Theatre deli, Arley Street, Sheffield S2 4QP. A play about 4 Rotherham men who went to fight the fascist in the Spanish Civil War
Sunday 3rd March “Still The Enemy Within” The Miners Strike 40 Years
3pm The Brooklyn 
Suite, New York Stadium, Rotherham. Organised by Rotherham TUC with support of Sheffield TUC and Barnsley TUC to commemorate 40 years anniversary of the start of the Miners’ Strike
Saturday 9th March David Jones/Joe Green Memorial Lecture
Doors open 10am Miners Offices, Barnsley SW70 2LS (Victoria Road entrance). Wreath laying 10.45am. Speakers Sharon Graham UNITE General Secretary and Cllr James Michael Stowe, Mayor of Barnsley
Friday 8th March Red Ladder Theatre’s “We’re Not Going Back”
7.30pm Wortley Hall Red Ladder Theatre Company and Unite the Union present We’re Not Going Back Written by Boff Whalley
75 Mines. 3 Sisters. 1 Cause. (And a six-pack of Babycham)
2024 is the fortieth anniversary of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, a dispute that still resonates today. But the strike wasn’t just about pickets vs police – in this hard-hitting musical comedy there are no miners and no cops. Instead, we follow the fortunes of three sisters in a pit village, hit hard by the Government’s war against the miners and determined to set up a branch of ‘Women Against Pit Closures’.
Early 1984, and Olive, Mary and Isabel are sisters whose everyday squabbles collide with a strike that forces them to question their lives, their relationships and their family ties.
This strike wasn’t just a war fought on the battlegrounds of picket line, Parliament and public opinion. It was as much a battle in the homes and families of those fighting for their communities.
We’re Not Going Back tackles the resilience of working communities, the make-and-mend fabric of family and the power of sticking two fingers up to a government hell-bent on destruction… and all with humour, song and a six pack of Babycham.
Saturday 16th March UN Anti-racism Day London Demonstration
Assemble 12 noon Home Office, Marsham Street, London. Organised by TUC and Stand Up to Racism
Monday 25th March Red Ladder Theatre’s “We’re Not Going Back”
7.30pm Theatre Deli, Arley Street Sheffield Red Ladder Theatre Company and Unite the Union present We’re Not Going Back Written by Boff Whalley https://www.theatredeli.co.uk/Event/were-not-going-back-by-red-ladder
75 Mines. 3 Sisters. 1 Cause. (And a six-pack of Babycham)
2024 is the fortieth anniversary of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, a dispute that still resonates today. But the strike wasn’t just about pickets vs police – in this hard-hitting musical comedy there are no miners and no cops. Instead, we follow the fortunes of three sisters in a pit village, hit hard by the Government’s war against the miners and determined to set up a branch of ‘Women Against Pit Closures’.
Early 1984, and Olive, Mary and Isabel are sisters whose everyday squabbles collide with a strike that forces them to question their lives, their relationships and their family ties.
This strike wasn’t just a war fought on the battlegrounds of picket line, Parliament and public opinion. It was as much a battle in the homes and families of those fighting for their communities.
We’re Not Going Back tackles the resilience of working communities, the make-and-mend fabric of family and the power of sticking two fingers up to a government hell-bent on destruction… and all with humour, song and a six pack of Babycham.
Saturday 15th June Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign Annual Rally
SAVE THE DATE!
MINERS’ STRIKE 40th ANNIVERSARY
ORGREAVE ANNUAL MARCH AND RALLY, Saturday 15th June 2024
SHEFFIELD
SUPPORT US IN OUR CAMPAIGN FOR TRUTH AND JUSTICE
Please come along and support the Annual Orgreave Rally organised by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign. Bring your banners, comrades and friends and march in solidarity with us through Sheffield City Centre to support our call for an inquiry for truth and justice for the miners brutalised by the state and police at the Orgreave Coking plant in June 1984.
More information about arrangements and speakers will be made available soon.
SUPPORT OUR CALL FOR AN ORGREAVE INQUIRY
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