Wednesday 7 January 2015

Liverpool TUC discuss 'Boys on the Blacklist'

LIVERPOOL Trade Union Council (TUC) have invited three speakers from Tameside Trade Union Council to talk about the book  'Boys on the Blacklist'.

Liverpool TUC meeting,
at Jack Jones House,
7pm, Thursday 15th, January 2015  
(5minutes from Lime Street station).

The speakers will include the two authors of the 'Boys on the Blacklist and Graham Bowker, who is one of the lads featured in the book.   The book is an historical ethnography about five activist electricians from Greater Manchester, who by force of circumstances began to campaign against blacklisting in the British building trade over ten years ago in 2003.
 
Copies of 'Boys on the Blacklist' to will be on sale as requested by the organisers of the event.

The event is being advertised in Merseyside and Manchester.  This is a monthly delegate meeting of Liverpool TUC and is open, as always, to strikers, anti-cuts activists, students etc.
 
There will also be other items on the agenda; such as report from Liverpool Against the Cuts, which Liverpool TUC helped to set up three years ago, see motion Old Swan Against the Cuts moved. The conference proposed will be held in February and all who are fighting cuts will be welcome.

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