10:30am, Friday 6th March 2015 The Hub, Gainsborough Square, Lockleaze, Bristol, BS7 9FB The #NoVoteNoVoice bus, sponsored by Unite, will be in Lockleaze, Bristol to help get Britain’s millions of missing voters registered and ready to vote in the 7th May general election. Get on board to register your vote– they’ve got the tech onContinueContinue reading “No Vote No Voice campaign”
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Support the Railways Bill
Friday 27 February 2015 07.00 – 08.00 and 1700 to 1800 Meet at Temple Quay entrance to Bristol Temple Meads Station to hand out out fliers to commuters. Protests are taking place at stations all over the country, in support of Caroline Lucas’s Railways Bill for a publicly owned railway that puts people before profit,ContinueContinue reading “Support the Railways Bill”
Going through the change!
GOING THROUGH THE CHANGE! A Bristol Radical History Group event Sunday 1st March 8pm (£5 / £4 ) The Cube Cinema, Dove St, Bristol The 1984/5 Miners’ strike changed their lives and for the feisty Women Against Pit Closures there was “No Going Back!” Joined by stars from picket lines, peace camps and war zones,ContinueContinue reading “Going through the change!”
Oppose ‘rip off rail fares’ and ‘cattle truck travel’
Monday 2 March 2015 – 1700 to 1800 Meet at Temple Quay entrance to Bristol Temple Meads Station to hand out out fliers to commuters. Oppose ‘rip off rail fares’ and ‘cattle truck travel’ Supported by RMT, Unite Bristol Area Community Branch and FOSBR. Organised by Action for Rail. FOSBR are encouraging support for CarolineContinueContinue reading “Oppose ‘rip off rail fares’ and ‘cattle truck travel’”
Lobby of Bristol City Council Cabinet – Save Our Libraries!
3rd March, 17:30–19:00 Bristol Science Centre, Anchor Road, Bristol, BS1 5DB Mayor George Ferguson and his Conservative – Liberal – Labour – Green rainbow cabinet are proposing the possible closure of seven of our public libraries and the slashing up to a third of library staff. users and thousands more occasional users. Behind their floridContinueContinue reading “Lobby of Bristol City Council Cabinet – Save Our Libraries!”
March in Bristol for the NHS
Saturday March 14th from 11:30am. Protect our NHS in association with People’s March for the NHS and local health unions will host a march and Rally starting in The Centre @ 11.30 AM and ending at Castle Park. You may recall the “darlo mums” who last year walked 300 miles to London to show theirContinueContinue reading “March in Bristol for the NHS”
NHS – Election public meetings (Hustings)
Protect Our NHS are organising meetings with the parliamentary candidates in three key constituencies: these will be specifically on health and the NHS. Please note these dates for your diaries and come and put the candidates on the spot: Bristol West: 30th March : St Michael’s Church Hall, Gloucester Road, Bishopston Bristol North-West: 16th April,ContinueContinue reading “NHS – Election public meetings (Hustings)”
Fair Pay Fortnight
East Street, Bedminster 21st February 2014 10:00 – 12:30 Bristol Trades Union Council will be in Bedminster to raise awareness about Britain’s cost of living crisis. Working people are seeing their living standards squeezed harder and harder. The cost of energy, food and housing is soaring but wages aren’t keeping up. People have lost overContinueContinue reading “Fair Pay Fortnight”
National Voter Registration Drive #NVRD
2nd to 8th February 2015 Bristol Trades Union Council ( Bristol TUC ) is urging all union reps to use Voter Registration Day, 5th February to talk to young workers to encourage them to register to vote. Why? In another sign of this government’s undemocratic approach to democratic governance, rules on voter registration have changed.ContinueContinue reading “National Voter Registration Drive #NVRD”
Stop benefit sanctions
National day of action Thursday, 19th March, 11am – 2pm The Fountains, Colston Avenue, Bristol, BS1 4ST The Unite Community Branch in Bristol has for many months been campaigning against the cruel use of benefit sanctions. On the 19th March 2015 they will be joining a National day of action with a number of eventsContinueContinue reading “Stop benefit sanctions”
Bristol Trades Union Council 