Calderdale
Trades
Council
Calderdale Trades Council is the local Trades Union Council for the Calderdale MBC area in West Yorkshire. We exist to bring together union branches and members at a local level to campaign on issues affecting working people in their workplaces and their communities.
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Calderdale
Trades Council
Video
Meetings
currently take place on the 3rd Tuesday of each month (except August and December) starting at
7pm
Contact us for details
All trades unionists and others who share our objectives welcome. We encourage affiliations from all union branches which have members who live or work in Calderdale.
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Calderdale Trades Council needs volunteer trade unionists to upload stories to our web site and to maintain our Facebook profile. If you can help Please contact us. |
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Download the 17 September public meeting leaflet:
Two podcasts on the 1842 Great Strike:
Halifax 1842 author Catherine Howe Halifax freelance journalist Mark Metcalf |
Calderdale Trades Council would like to thank BFAWU Suma branch, CWU Bradford Amalgamated branch, CWU West Yorkshire branch, FBU West Yorkshire, GMB B05 Organising branch, J Harvey, D Lee, Leeds and West Yorkshire NUJ, NEU Calderdale District, NUJ Leeds and Wakefield branch, RMT Leeds City branch, TSSA North East General branch, Unite NEYH Regional Committee, Unite Marshalls NE/404/8 branch, Unite Nestle NE/100/10 branch, Unite NE Sec 2 branch, Unite NE/Geo/1 (Sheffield East) branch, Unite NE/Geo/22 Huddersfield, Unite NE/5 Leeds branch, Unite NE/209/1 branch, Unite NE/302/11 Arriva Yorkshire Tiger branch, UNITE NE/401/14 branch, Unite NE/403/15 Not for profit branch, UNITE NE/Y/H407/6 branch. for their generous donations towards our financial appeal.
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Hands off HRI
Calderdale Trades Council has supported Hands off HRI since it was set up in 2016 to campaign against the closure or downgrading of hospitals or health services within the Huddersfield and Calderdale area, particularly against the planned closure of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, it’s A&E department and acute services. Facebook Web site Our Save our NHS previous page includes articles about Hands Off HRI |
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The People’s Assembly Against Austerity has published a pamphlet: “In Place of Austerity – a programme for the people”. “It is essential that we, together with the Trade Unions, continue to build the mass movement further to force the Tories out of office, and to help elect and sustain a future anti-austerity progressive government – which, of course, would be under fierce attack by the bankers, big business monopoly corporations and their pet politicians and media. This is the clear aim of the People’s Assembly.”
This pamphlet is very useful can be used to win more people to an anti-austerity position, and convince them that there is a real, practical and achievable alternative. Download the updated pamphlet:
Morning Star review of the pamphlet:
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Sick of Being Skint? is Calderdale Trades Council’s contribution to the fight for all workers to be paid at least £10 per hour. We are urging workers, especially young workers, to press for better pay and conditions at work through joining a union.
In July 2017 Calderdale Trades Council has worked with USDAW taking ‘Sick of Being Skint?’ cards to the Lidl Supermarket in Sowerby Bridge and with BFAWU in Halifax Town Centre. |
During Heart Unions Week in February 2017 Calderdale Trades Council took ‘Sick of Being Skint?’ campaign postcards to over 60 workplaces in Halifax, Brighouse and Hartshead Moor Service Station.
Download a digital version of the postcard below:
Huddersfield Daily Examiner article 5 Feb 2017
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