Trades Councils Programme of Work 2015-6

The key theme for the Trades Union Councils Programme of Work for 2015 to 2016 must be setting out a positive vision of trade unions as we know them to be: a democratic force for fairness in the modern workplace. 

The key areas of campaigning for the year are:

1.  Protecting workers’ rights to organise together
2.  An end to austerity economics
3.  A twenty-first century Europe
4.  Making devolution and decentralisation work
5.  Reaching out to young workers
6.  Fighting racism and defending black, Asian and ethnic minority workers
7.  Defending the Welfare State

Ten Things You Can Do To Help Us Win

1. Build in your workplace and community for the TUC national demonstration
   against austerity at October’s Tory Party conference in Manchester. 
2. Join the TUC’s digital army by signing up to Going to Work
3. Share how austerity has blighted your community at the False Economy
   website
4. Back the Saving our Safety Net campaign and tell the government to scrap
   plans to make people wait at least five weeks for unemployment benefits
5. Join local community campaigns to defend the NHS  including the Save the DGH Campaign
6. Press your local council to back the Robin Hood Tax.
7. Support organisations like Defend Council Housing and campaign for decent
   affordable homes for all including by building more council homes, ending the
   "right to buy" and stopping its extension to housing associations; and controlling
   private rents
8. Join your local public services campaigns – contact your  TUC region  
9. Back TUC international solidarity actions through the Going to Work website  
10. Put the TUC’s Campaign Plan on your trades union council agenda.