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Mayday Demonstration in Photos
The Banners The March The People The Speakers UKUncut Topshop Demo The Photographers With thanks for the photos from: Geoff Dexter Sherborne Amy-Rose Deffley Indymedia Birmingham Pete Jackson/Right to Work Mary Pearson Bob Whitehead You can read a full report … Continue reading
Hundreds come out for Mayday Demonstration
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Birmingham today to celebrate the trade union movement and demonstrate against the cuts. Mayday is the traditional workers holiday and every year Birmingham Trades Union Council (BTUC) organise a celebration. For the … Continue reading
PCS members at EHRC Birmingham to strike
Workers at Equality and Human Rights Commission offices across the country will walk out for an hour from 11am to 12 noon on Wednesday 4 May and again on Wednesday 11 May. They are protesting over restructuring, job losses and … Continue reading
PCS prepare to ballot for Strikes
Yesterday we posted about possible strikes in the education sector over pensions. Teachers are not the only public sector workers to be affected by changes in pensions, and PCS are also balloting for strike action. Like the teachers, this ballot … Continue reading
Education workers balloting for strikes
Over the past 2 weeks, the teaching unions – NUT, NASUWT and ATL – have held their national conferences, against a backdrop of “ringfenced” school budgets which actually means real-terms reductions in funding, cuts in the building maintenance grant of … Continue reading
You May Not Do This To Us
Birmingham Trade Unionists Lead May Day Rally Defending Public Services Birmingham Trades Union Council and Birmingham Against the Cuts have come together to organise this years Mayday demonstration. Mayday is the workers bank holiday, and a time for the trade … Continue reading
Legal Challenges to the cuts
Whilst Birmingham City Council passed it’s budget back in March, slashing £212 million from its spending, the fight against those cuts did not die there and since then there have been some successful challenges in the courts. The first of … Continue reading
Filed under Birmingham City Council, Cuts
City centre leafletting on Saturday
We will be out leafletting in the City Centre on Saturday, building for the Save our Services Mayday Demonstration on the 30th April. This will take place from 11am-1pm, outside of Waterstones high street branch (at the corner of High … Continue reading
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PCS Demonstrate at Civil Service Live event
Around 50 people gathered outside Birmingham’s ICC today as the civil service held a conference, attended by Francis Maude, the Conservative minister for the civil service. PCS – the civil service union – called this demonstration because of redundancies in … Continue reading
Sat April 30th – Mayday Demonstration
This demonstration has been called by Birmingham Trades Union Council to celebrate May Day— International Workers Day. May Day celebrates International Workers Day and is marked traditionally when the Trade Union Movement gathers with the community to celebrate our … Continue reading
