Chelmsford TUC

Established 1899

Welcome to the Chelmsford & District Trades Union Council website

Chelmsford & District Trades Union Council is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Essex County Association of Trades Councils.

Its membership is made up of delegates from mainly locally based trade union branches that are affiliated to the TUC. Its aim is to promote the objectives of the TUC and to defend the interests of trade unionists and their families within Chelmsford.

We have a wide range of content on this site, including sections on labour and trade union boycotts, the history of the union and labour movements, working class culture, songs, poetry and literature, and politics, equal opportunities and workplace information, as well as many links to the wider labour movement. In the last 24 hours we have had 139 page views.

Latest News

We are delighted to tell you that following the campaign that was launched by Thompsons Solicitors to release imprisoned trade unionists in Colombia, both Fanny Perdomo Hite and Carmen Mayusa have been released from the “Buen Pastor” Women’s Prison in Bogata.

It is distressing to record that hundreds of Colombian trade unionists, student activists, indigenous people and community leaders have been murdered in recent years. Many more are still held in prison in appalling conditions. Chelmsford TUC thanks those local MPs and MEPs for supporting the first phase of our campaign and we hope that other organisations and political parties in our community will assist in our future work.

We have all the latest news from the TUC, the Co-operative Movement, LabourStart and the Health & Safety NewsWire.

Chelmsford TUC, local political parties, community groups and leading local figures are in the forefront of a campaign to defeat racism and fascism within their community. Read our Statement against Racism and Fascism

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July General Meeting

6 July 2008: Chelmsford TUC delegates were delighted to hear at their meeting that the campaign with Thompsons Solicitors to free Fanny Perdomo Hite and Carmen Mayusa from prison in Colombia had been successful. However, many others trade unionists remain under attack and the next phase of the campaign will be activated during the summer. The Secretary was asked to write to local MPs and regional MEPs to thank them for responding to our request in obtaining their release.