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 186 page views.

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WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY

Many thanks to all our supporters in trade union branches, the Labour Party, Green Party and Thompsons Solicitors, for helping us to distribute health and safety leaflets in the High Street and their attendance at our event in Central Park to mark Workers’ Memorial Day.

CHELMSFORD TUC MAY RALLY

This was a great event with guest speakers Manuel Cortes, General Secretary TSSA and Hope Daley, UNISON National Health & Safety Officer. The entertainment came from the excellent Strawberry Thieves Socialist Choir.

STOP THE CUTS

Chelmsford TUC has been campaigning against the Coalition Government’s cuts since August 2010. We work very closely with Chelmsford against the Cuts. We have held several public meetings and events and have distributed thousands of leaflets in the community, at workplaces and in the High Street. Contact us if you would like to help in our campaigning activities.

For further information about our anti-cuts activities visit Chelmsford Against Cuts

TUC Women and the cuts Toolkit

How to carry out a human rights and equality impact assessment of the spending cuts on women, written by Mary-Ann Stephenson, Chair of Coventry Women’s Voices.

This is a toolkit for trade unions, voluntary organisations, community groups and others who want to assess the human rights and equality impact of the spending cuts on women in their communities. Although the toolkit focuses on women and the cuts, much of the information it contains can be used to look at the impact of the cuts on other groups. Click here to download from the TUC website.

CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT WE CAN DO IN CHELMSFORD

Eighty people attended our first meeting on Climate Change. A local team is now in the process of establishing Chelmsford as a Transition Town. Contact us if you are interested in getting involved. email. Look at our Green Workplaces page.

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NEWS FROM OUR MOVEMENT

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

SAY NO TO RACISM

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

APRIL GENERAL MEETING

5 April 2012: At the April meeting of Chelmsford TUC delegates finalised details for the public events they are holding in the coming weeks. Workers’ Memorial Day, which is marked throughout the world on 28 April, will begin in Chelmsford with a health and safety exhibition in the library’s public square. A leaflet distribution will take place in the High Street from 11.30am, and a service will be held in Central Park, near the bowling green, at 1.15pm.