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This is a Trades Union Congress website dedicated to the work of trades union councils.

Trades union councils bring together unions to work and campaign around issues affecting working people in their local workplaces and communities. Trades Union Councils aim to:

  • raise public awareness of rights at work and the union role in enforcing those rights.
  • promote organising and recruitment drives to build union membership.
  • support union and community campaigns for dignity and respect in the workplace and beyond

 With the threats of racism and fascism, changes in the labour market and the effects of the recession and debates over the future of public services, the trade union voice in the community is as important as ever. The capacity of trades union councils to provide a local response and to organise trade unionists into coalitions with other progressive forces is crucial. 

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Trades Union Councils Joint Consultative Committee - General

Trades Union Councils Programme of Work 2011 to 2012

The background to the work of trades union councils

The Coalition Government has made clear that its vision for public service reform encompasses the expansion of competition in an open market for services and delivery of services through a diverse range of providers including both the private sector and voluntary and community organisations and social enterprises.

This ‘marketisation’ of public service delivery must be seen within the context of the deep and rapid spending cuts that the Government has embarked upon as part of its plans to cut the UK deficit within the lifetime of the current spending review.

The March budget did nothing to change the course already set by the earlier Comprehensive Spending Review. The Coalition Government is determined to bring about a fundamental shift in British society.

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Programme of Work - Programme of Work 2011 to 2012

Understand and Fight the Cuts

TUC Campaign Website: Understand and then Fight the Cuts

False EconomyThe TUC has developed a website that helps people understand the Government’s cuts programme and the alternative proposals that the TUC and other progressives have expressed. This website has been developed in partnership with a group of local campaigners and on-line activists. Following the highly successful TUC March for the Alternative, False Economy continues to publish up to date information of the governments cuts to public services and its attacks on the standard of living of ordinary people. Don't forget to let False Economy know what's happening in your area.
 
 
 
The website has five main purposes:
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Trades Union Councils Joint Consultative Committee - General

2011 CONFERENCE OF TRADES UNION COUNCILS

The 2011 Trades Union Councils' Conference took place this year at Peterborough Town Hall on 14th and 15th May. The keynote speaker was Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers. Other speakers included Green Party MEP, Jean Lambert, Janice Fine from Rutger University in the US talking on community organising and TUC Southern and Eastern Regional Secretary Megan Dobney. Further details of the conference can be found by clicking on the trades council conference heading on the menu on the right hand side of this page.