CHORLEY & DISTRICT
TRADES UNION COUNCIL
Covid Memorial Day Event
Tuesday 12th March, 6pm
Astley Park Remembrance Garden
Join us to remember those we lost and those that cared for us. Assemble at Astley Park main gates 5.45pm.
Chorley & Coppull Miners' Strike
40th anniversary event
Saturday 27th April, 11am-4pm
Coppull British Legion, PR7 5EJ
Chorley & District Trades Union Council is organising a major 40th anniversary Miners’ Strike event in Coppull, near Chorley on Saturday 27th April.
This will be a full day event (approx 11am til 4pm) at the British Legion Club, Springfield Rd, Coppull.
In 1984-5 about 100 miners were on strike who lived in Coppull and Chorley. The majority were employed at Parkside Colliery in Newton le Willows, with some at Sutton Manor, Golborne and Bold Collieries. There was also Ellerbeck open cast coal site on Wigan Lane near Chorley, which was picketed through there strike.
Chorley and Coppull Miners’ Support Committee was set up in early June 1984, its main function being to provide weekly food parcels to local striking miners and their families.
Whilst at the 27th April anniversary event we want to hear the accounts from those who participated locally in the 1984-5 strike, we have also invited three keynote speakers:
John Harris, well-known professional photographer and supporter of the strike, who recorded in detail many of its important events, including the viscous police attacks on pickets at Orgreave in June 1984. (He took the famous photograph of the mounted policeman baton charging Leslie Bolton at Orgreave.)
Betty Cook and Heather Wood, leading activists in the Miners’ Strike and organisers of the National Women Against Pit Closures.
International Workers' Memorial Day 2024
Friday 26th April, 6pm
Astley Park Remembrance Garden
Join us to remember those we lost and those that cared for us. Assemble at Astley Park main gates 5.45pm.
Oppose Minimum Service Levels
The Minimum Service Level introduced by this Tory Government are an attack on our fundamental human rights. They seek to curtail the effectiveness of any strikes, using the power of the state to force workers to break their own democratic strike mandates. The law aims to stop working class people standing up for themselves, their communities and the services they run.
Chorley TUC opposes Minimum Service Levels and calls on all employers to refuse to implement them. Should any try, we stand ready to act in solidarity with any trade unions or groups of workers who seek defend our fundamental human right to strike.
Read the motion passed here: https://www.chorleytuc.org/policy
Ceasefire Now!
Chorley & District TUC calls for an immediate unconditional ceasefire by all parties in Israel and Gaza.
The unbearable terror, suffering and death of innocent civilians - everyday people, aid workers and thousands of children - must end.
We further call on all parties to respect international law, ensuring that all civilians are protected, all hostages are released unharmed and that food, water, electricity, medical, sanitary and fuel supplies are restored.
International law makes it clear that the deliberate killing of civilians, hostage-taking and collective punishment are war crimes. The crimes committed by Hamas and by the Israeli government must be denounced and international law must be upheld.
While the conflict is ongoing it is essential that humanitarian corridors are opened and remain open to facilitate access to humanitarian aid.
Chorley & District TUC calls on the whole international community to work toward a comprehensive and lasting peace ensuring human rights for all and ending oppression, violence and ethnic cleansing as well as the military occupation of Palestinian territory and the blockade of Gaza.
Chorley & District TUC will work to combat the anti-muslim racism, antisemitism and racism against Palestinians and Arabs that is increasing in our workplaces and communities on the back of this conflict.
