Rotherham 'Pension Justice Day of Action' Flyer

List Of Events in South Yorkshire.

Sheffield Trades Council has circulated a list of events.

The list circulated details the many events that are taking places in South Yorkshire, many of which - though not all - are Anti-Cut related activities.In Rotherham there are weekly meetings - called by Unison - to organise the actions in Rotherham in support of the strikes on the 30th November.

Also, there will be 2 'Days of Action' (Saturday 12th November and 19th November) in Rotherham where RAC will be support Unions in promoting the Nov 30th Strikes.

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7th to 12th November,2011: "Ashes & Diamonds Exhibition."

Wortley Hall. Wortley Hall has been chosen as, like previous ventures, it has past links to

National Union of Mineworkers` Education. John Dunn, the Sponsor writes:"I attended many

Derbyshire NUM weekend and week long schools there as I am sure did many of us.Wortley

Hall is also a valuable Trade Union resource that is celebrating 60 years of ownership by the

Trade Union and Labour Movement (who says workers cannot run a business?). It will also

feature a number of Public Meetings.

THE TIMETABLE IS AS FOLLOWS:-

7th November, 2011: 7.00 P.M.,Wortley Hall. Official opening by Arthur

Scargill, NUM Honorary President,incorporating From The Miners` Strike To The Current

Capitalist Crisis - Ken Capstick, former NUM Yorkshire Area Vice-President. The artist,

Darren Coffield, will also speak on what inspired him to create this tribute.

8th November, 2011: 8.00 P.M, Wortley Hall. "The Media - From the Miners`

Strike to MurdochGate."Speakers: Granville Williams,Campaign For Press and Broadcasting

Freedom and Author of:"Shafted-The Miners` Strike and the Aftermath"; and Peter Lazenby

-Industrial Correspondent, Yorkshire Evening Post, who was arrested during the Strike.

11th November, 2011: 7.00 P.M., Wortley Hall. "Art and The Labour

Movement." By Darrell Cozens, UCU, Coventry Trades Union Council.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact Hilary Cave,

Secretary, North Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Labour History Society, 22 Boythorpe

Avenue, Chesterfield, Derbys S40 2QE, tel: 01246 270628,

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10th November,2011:PUBLIC RALLY, 6,30 P.M.,PONDS FORGE,

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS CENTRE, MAIN HALL, SHEAF STREET,

SHEFFIELD,S1 2BP.

"UNITE THE RESISTANCE! - STRIKE TOGETHER! - DEFEND PENSIONS! -

FIGHT THE CUTS!."

SPEAKERS:Mark Serwotka,PCS General Secretary; Matt Wrack,FBUGeneral Secretary;

Karen Reahy, UNITE Regional Secretary; Peter Davies,GMB Sheffield Regional Secretary;

Sally Kincalds,NUT Wakefield Branch Secretary; UNISON Speaker and other Speakers

invited.

MEETING SPONSORED AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION BY:- Sheffield Trades Union

Council; Barnsley Trades Union Council; UNITE North East and the Yorkshire and

Humberside Region; NUTSheffield; NUT Barnsley; UCU University of Sheffield; UCU

Hallam University; FBU South Yorkshire; UCU Barnsley College; UNISON University of

Sheffield; PCS Sheffield; GMB S38; NUT Rotherham; UNISON Rotherham Health.. 

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11th November,2011: INDEPENDENT WORKING CLASS EDUCATION:

can the tradition be revived? DAY SCHOOL .10.00 A.M to 5.00 P.M.,Northern College, Barnsley,

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14th November, 2011:10.30 A.M. to 12.30 P.M. TUC Regional Disabilities

Forum. Venue: TUC Office, 33,Park Place,Leeds,LS1 2RY (Phone 0113 242 9696)

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15th November, 2011:Defend Council Housing. National Protest at Parliament.

A national protest at Parliament will challenge Government attacks on tenants and demand action to

build the homes we need. The Housing Emergency protest on 15 November will oppose attacks on

tenancies, rents and benefits, and demand new Council housing - see leaflet.The national protest follows

lobbies and protests across Britain, rejecting attacks on secure tenancies, up to 80% market rents, and

evictions, and demanding a mass council house building programme to provide desperately-needed secure

and genuinely-affordable rented housing.

MPs next month vote for the last time on the Localism Bill, introducing fixed term tenancies, giving

Councils powers to end homeless access to council housing and remove thousands from housing waiting

lists. Join the National Protest Contact tenants, trade unions, councillors and housing campaigners to make

a joint delegation to Parliament 4pm 15th Nov - bring banners and placards

Arrange to see your MPs and demand they oppose attacks in the Localism Bill. See Localism Bill

Briefing here Come to the meeting 5pm Committee Room 15 House of Commons, with MPs, councillors,

trade unions, tenants and others.

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19th November, 2011: Labour Representation Committee Annual Conference

will take place from 10.00 A.M. to 4.30 P.M. in the UCU Offices,Malet Street,London. LRC

Members will discuss campaign strategy for the coming year. The conference will debate and

vote on policy, elect new officers and a national committee, and will hold hustings for LRC

nominees for the centre-left Labour Party NEC slate. If not already a member or need to

renew then join online . Only LRC members are able to speak and vote at conference.For

those who are unwaged or travelling from outside London, the price to attend is £3, Register

online. A free creche will also be available, though please email us to register. Speakers at the

conference include campaigning left MPs John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn; and Katy Clark.

Other Speakers: FBU General Secretary Matt Wrack; Haringey community and youth

worker Symeon Brown; and Dot Gibson, General Secretary of the National Pensioners`

Convention.

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22nd November, 2011: Wortley Hall Left Film Club Presents at Wortley Hall:

Black Flash "A Century of Black Sportsmen." The film is based on the Phil. Visili book

"Colouring over the White Lines: A History of Black Footballers in Britain." From the

eccentric Victorian Arthur Wharton who kept goal for Preston North End in 1886 to Cyrille

Regis, John Barnes and beyond. Black Flash celebrates the highs and lows of nearly 120 years

of black involvement in British professional football. .The film will be followed by a

Q.& A. Session.

ITINERARY: 6.00 PM -7.15 PM Food: 7.15 PM -7.55 PM. "Black Flash";

7.55 PM. to 8.10 PM Intermission; 8.10 PM to 8.50 PM "Black Flash".

9.00 P.M. Q.& A. Session.

COST: £6.50 Per Person (INCLUDING Pie and Pea Supper)

REDUCED OVERNIGHT ROOMS AVAILABLE.

CONTACT: Wortley Hall,Wortley Village, Sheffield, S35 7DB. Tel.0114 2882100;

Fax 0114 283 0695; E-mail:unfo@wortleyhall.org.uk Web.www.wortleyhall.org.uk.

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22nd November, 2011: Sheffield Trades Union Council Delegate Meeting.

7.00 P.M., Trades & Labour Club. Speaker: Bill Adams, Secretary,TUC Yorkshire & The

Humber Regional Council. The Agenda of this Delegate Meeting will include the Final

Arrangements for the Trade Union Day Of Action on 30th November, 2011.

25th November, 2011: Derbyshire Unemployed Workers` Centres. Present:.

"THE BIG SOCIETY SOCIAL." 7.00 P.M.., The Winding Wheel,Chesterfield.

Tickets: £10 Waged/£5 Unwaged.

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30th November, 2011: Rally, 9.15 A.M.. Herries Road Entrance, Northern

General Hospital. Organised by UNISON Northern General Hospital Branch. Speakers

invited. Jazz Band to be booked.Further information will be given when when available.

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30th November, 2011: TUC Regional March and Rally in Sheffield of trade

unionists on strike plus their supporters commencing around 1.00 P.M.. Further information

will be gven when available.

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30th November, 2011: Day Of Action Social & Rally commencing at 5.30 P.M

organised by the Sheffield Trades Union Council in the Sheffield Trades & Labour Club,

Duke Street,Sheffield, S2. Further information will be given when available.

Nov 30 - March and Rally in Rotherham!

Rotherham is to hold a March and Rally on November 30th to support the stikes in the public sector.

In a meeting organised by Rotherham Unison branches, with representatives from many unions, community groups and campaigning groups, the following action was agreed in order to promote and to support the strikes:

10am: After pickets, gather outside town hall.
10:30am: Start the March around Rotherham (details + map below - red line marks the route of the march).
11am: arrive for a rally in All Saints Square
11:15am onwards: Board coaches and head to Sheffield to join the regional demonstrations.

Also there will be 'Action Days' held on Saturday12th and 19th November, leafletting and promoting the strike and the march. Stalls will be organised in All Saints Square and outside the Market/Halifax Bank/Boots.

MARCH DETAILS: - March begins outside Rotherham Town Hall
- March behind Job Centre along Stanley street
- Turn left, down the hill, along Mansfield Road
- Turn left and march along Wellgate
- Turn right, up the hill, along Doncaster Gate
- Turn left along Howard Street/Eastwood Lane past RCAT
- Turn left, down the hill, along Wharnecliffe Street/ Drummond Street past the Markets and Rotherham Central Library
- Turn Left, march along Henry Street/ Effingham Street towards All Saints Square
- Rally in All Saints Square

Join the Jarrow March in London

The final leg of the Jarrow March will pass through London on the Saturday 5th November, from the Embankment to Trafalgar Square.

There will be a coach going from outside Paternoster Row (near Train Station, outside Showroom Cinema) on Saturday 5th November at 0800 in the morning, so if you fancy joining the marchers please get in touch with Alistair Tice on 07706 710 041!

Here's what the Jarrow March 2011 blog has to say about the 5th November March and Rally.

"After marching 330 miles the Jarrow March for Jobs arrives in London. Following in the footsteps of the 1936 Jarrow marchers who walked to London against unemployment. Assemble Temple Place on Embankment 12noon! Come and join the end demostration and rally in Trafalgar Square. 

Speakers Include: 

Matt Wrack FBU General Secretary 

Bob Crow RMT General Secretary 

Paul Murphy MEP Socialist Party Ireland 

Lizi Gray Great-grandaughter of 1936 marcher 

 Stephen Hepburn MP for Jarrow 

US Occupy Wall Street Activist 

Jarrow marchers

Day-Mer Youth 

Socialist Party 

Young Deacon performing his rap about the riots called ‘Failed by the System’ 

Ed Marsh NUS 

London Slutwalk Activist Maddy Carty performing her track ‘CONDEMn AGE’

Dennis Skinner MP for Bolsover + More!

Unite the Resistance Public Rally

Education workers lobby their MP's in London.

Yesterday, 26th October 2011, thousands of education workers went to London to lobby their MP's against the education cuts. RAC's Ralph Dyson went down and provided a few pictures. 

Ralph Dyson - on the left!

The following articles are taken from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and University and College Union (UCU).

National Union of Teachers (NUT)

"Thousands of teachers, lecturers and support staff visited Parliament today (Wednesday, 26 October) to lobby their MPs about pension cuts in the education sector.

Over 150,000 petition signatures were handed to the government.

Staff from the maintained, academy and independent sectors in England and Wales as well as from colleges and post-92 universities, lobbied their MPs and handed in petitions from their workplaces.

This lobby and the large number of petitions returned should serve as a wake-up call to the Government. If Ministers don’t recognise that pensions are both affordable and sustainable, many teachers and lecturers will be left with no option but to take further action, including supporting the planned TUC day of action on 30 November."

University and College Union (UCU).

"Thousands of members of the UCU and other education trade unions will descend on parliament today to lobby their MPs about potential changes to their pensions.

The joint action by seven education unions is part of attempts by unions to resolve the pensions dispute without the need for further industrial action. To avoid disruption to classes, the lobby has been organised in the half-term holiday.

As well as speaking to their MPs, union members will hand a petition in to the schools minister, Nick Gibb MP, at 10.30am at the department for education.

UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'We are meeting with MPs today to dispel government myths about the need for pension reform. Our members are unlikely militants but they will not stand by while their pensions are raided to pay for a crisis they did not create.'"

Planning Meeting for TUC Day of Action 30th

Planning meeting, organised by Unison-Rotherham, for the November 30th Day of Action. 

Rotherham UNISON Health Branch and Rotherham UNISON Local Government Branch have provisionally agreed to hold a March & Rally in Rotherham on Wednesday 30th November as part of the TUC (Pensions Justice) Day of Action. We are keen to plan & co-ordinate the event with all the local trade unions/organisations representing Public Sector workers as well as the wider Labour and trade union movement. 

We therefore cordially invite you to attend a meeting on Wednesday 2nd November at the Unity Centre (St. Leonard's Road), Rotherham at 6.00pm to discuss and help plan the event. 
 

Rotherham Unison - http://www.unison-rotherham.org.uk/