Redbridge
Trades Union Council
OPEN
MEETING
(to
kick-off 12-18 Feb Heart Unions Week)
‘What future for trade unions?’
Guest
Speaker: Elly Baker (NEU National Organiser)
7.30 - 9.00pm
Friday 9 February 2018
St.
John’s Church Centre, St. John’s Road, Seven Kings, IG2 7BB
All welcome – plenty of time for discussion!
Elly Baker is National Organiser at the National Education Union. She
has been a union activist and then Organiser for nearly 20 years, organising
workers across diverse sectors such as transport, logistics, social care and
the arts. She was a senior union negotiator on the railway for many years and
has organised workers against hostile employers such as Amazon and Uber. She
has been able to see the union movement at its most militant and strong, and
also to see up close where it is desperately needed - within the most exploited
and precarious workers.
This will be an excellent introduction for activists who are unfamiliar
with or unsure about how trades unions function and the part they can play in
building a better society.
Heart Unions Week, 12-18 February 2018
This year we are focusing on the TUC’s Great Jobs Campaign (https://www.tuc.org.uk/campaigns/great-jobs-agenda)
and in particular the case for workers having an independent voice at work,
achieved through recognising trade unions. We are working with the BFAWU to
specifically support their McDonalds campaign, calling upon McDonalds to
support recognition of the Bakers Union, fair pay for food workers and decent
contracts for staff.
To contact Redbridge Trades Union Council email: rtucsecretary@btinternet.com
or phone 07956656086
