2015, Birmingham Pride, Gays, Group, Lesbians, LGBT, LGSM, Miners, Peter Tatchell, Politics, Pride, Trade Unions, TUC
In News, What's On on 05/22/2015 at 17:00
The Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) will be leading the Birmingham Pride Parade (Photograph: Geoff Dexter)
The 2015 Birmingham Pride Parade will be led by the original members of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM), who recently returned to public prominence with the film PRIDE. They will also be joined by hundreds of trade unionists from across the Midlands.
The carnival parade will assemble in Victoria Square on Saturday 23 May at 11am. Following the parade at 2pm, the Birmingham LGBT centre will host a showing of the original film made by LGSM All out! Dancing in Dulais. Read the rest of this entry »
2011, Birmingham, Birmingham City Council, Cuts, demonstration, GMB, March, N30, national, NIA, NUT, PCS, Pensions, Rally, Strike, Trade Unions, Unison
In News on 11/30/2011 at 17:13
The N30 Pension Strike brings the city centre to a stand still | Photo: Geoff Dexter.
An estimated 15,000 people joined a public sector trade unions march through Birmingham this afternoon, despite the city council refusing to agree a route following a dispute over road closures.
Thousands of individuals on and supporting the national N30 strike ‘snaked’ through the city streets without official permission after the Birmingham City Council had demanded unions to pay up to £10,000 for road closures. Despite this obstruction, which many strikers felt the Tory-Lib Dem council had deliberately put up in support of the Coalition Government, trade unions including Unison, the NUT, GMB and PCS went ahead with the city centre demonstration; marching from from Lionel Street to the National Indoor Arena for a specially called conference. Read the rest of this entry »
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