The annual general meeting of Hackney TUC will be on 12 February at 7pm (venue to be confirmed).

Fantastic guest speakers

The meeting will also be an opportunity to hear from US trade unionists from the SEIU and the Steelworkers unions who were seconded to work with the Barack Obama presidential campaign and helped to co-ordinate the trade union mobilisation for Obama.

Jess Fenn, a TUC Academy trained organiser, in currently working (in a voluntary capacity) with Hackney TUC.

Jess has a number of objectives:

From John Page, HTUC Secretary

Hackney TUC notes:

• That new migrant and minority ethnic communities face high levels of unemployment and underemployment, and discrimination when at work.

• That young workers are prone to exploitation and their safety can be compromised at work because of their lack of knowledge of employment rights.
  
  

PRESS RELEASE: 31 October 2004



On Wednesday 10 November, Hackney TUC is launching a 'union organising drive' across the borough to take the union message into the borough's unorganised workplaces. The aim is to ensure that everyone who lives or works in Hackney, whatever their job, is offered the opportunity to join a trade union that can support them at work.

• Interesting in union organising?

• Are you a union organiser?
• Do you have any current or future campaigns that may involve unionising workers in Hackney?

Then come along to an organising forum.


Click 'Hackney TUC organising forum' above for details.

This resolution on 'homeworking' was agreed unanimously at the July meeting of Hackney TUC.


proposed by John Page, Hackney TUC Secretary

Click 'read more' below to see the text of the resolution.