Eastbourne Trades Council: Join us at the Tolpuddle Festival

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Join us at the Tolpuddle Festival

Lewes and Crawley Trades Councils are organising a coach to the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival Rally this year, on 19th July, and trade unionists from Eastbourne are warmly invited to join them. This is a fantastic event with music, political speakers, and thousands of people processing with their banners.

The Tolpuddle Festival commemorates the Tolpuddle Martyrs- farm labourers who were tried and transported to Australia in 1834 on trumped-up charges, as a result of their forming an early trade union. Three years later, the government capitulated, and the men returned home as heroes. Find out more about their story here.

The fare will be approximately £10, and you will need to get to Lewes to join the coach. If you are interested, please contact the Lewes Trades Council secretary Bill Ball by emailing here.

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Trades Councils in the Community

Your union branch speaks up for your members and potentialmembers in the workplace. Whether it’s pay, rights at work, healthand safety or lifelong learning, your branch exists to get a better dealfor your members.

Unions also need to raise their voice in the world beyond the workplace when:
• the public services delivered and used by union members come under threat
• racists and fascists try to divide local communities
• local authorities seek to reduce democratic control of education or housing.

That’s where your local trades union council comes in. Trades councils bringtogether local union branches to campaign across a community on issuesthat matter to working people.

Facing closure?: Your trades council can provide practical support and solidarity.
Tackling racism? Your trades council can help unite local people against the haters.
Privatisation problems? Your trades council can help campaign for public ownership and democratic control.

Eastbourne Trades Council represents workers in public and private sector employment across the Borough of Eastbourne and the parish of Willingdon and Jevington.