All Croydon TUC meetings take place at Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Road, Croydon, CR0 1BD, normally on the 2nd Thursday of each month. The start time is 7.30pm. Premises open from 7pm. All trades union members are welcome to attend, but voting is restricted to delegates from affiliated branches.
Please note that all meetings and events at Ruskin House are either cancelled or postponed due to Government, TUC, LP or their constituent unions directives.
Tuesday 28 April is International Workers Memorial Day
Remember the Dead Fight for the Living
Fighting for hearts and minds of all workers
Every year on 28 April all over the world trade unions, workers, families mark International Workers Memorial Day because work still hurts, makes ill and kills millions globally every year, and over 50,000 in this country, 140 a day before the pandemic arrived to make things worse. Bad jobs can break your heart, leaving us HEARTBROKEN. Whether the threat at work is another new virus, dangerous substances or heart-breaking demands, your life should not be on the line. Unions can make it better.
The Hazards Campaign brought Workers Memorial Day to the UK in 1990s with twin aims, to Remember the Dead but also to Fight for the Living and has marked it every year since then. This year as Coronavirus rages through the world it is more necessary than ever to honour both those aims so no more workers will die needlessly.
We will remember all those low paid, insecure and exploited workers who are now recognised as essential: NHS workers, social care workers, cleaners, bus drivers, delivery drivers, taxi uber and other transport workers, food chain workers, cleaners, supermarket and other shop workers, postal, education, civil servants, border and prison guards, social & call centre workers etc.
Unions and workers are organising, fighting back and winning sick pay, site closures, pay for all laid off workers and PPE.
There will be action all across the UK, online meetings and physically distanced outdoor meetings and demos in essential workplaces, and #CoronavirusWalkouts in the UK and across the world
The Hazards Campaign supports the 11am one minutes silence to Remember the Dead – those dying from Covid19 and all work hazards. Hold up a Heartbroken poster, at home stand by your door, gate or in the street. At work hold a safe physically distanced outdoor vigil.