B'burn and Dist TUC

We are too verbose for Twitter. More goes on: facebook.com/Blackburn-and-… or bdtuc.co.uk.

Young workers in Blackburn, Darwen and the Ribble Valley - take part in our 2025 Young Worker survey: forms.gle/HkSJrJwvjE21Pa… Closes 3rd October.

We have a new article on our website, which links to our 2025 Young Worker survey: bdtuc.co.uk/2025/09/08/bla…

The platform does not seem to like the link to the article on our website about this. But you can find it on bdtuc.co.uk.

New on our website: bdtuc.co.uk/2024/11/07/liv…

Check out "Trade Unions and the climate crisis: green jobs and just transitions" eventbrite.com/e/trade-unions… @Eventbrite

@jrkdenison @UniteSharon They included profits from extraction, generation and distribution alongside the retail agents' profits: #_Toc127981724" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">unitetheunion.org/what-we-do/uni…

@UniteSharon Can you explain how the industry might generate £45b in profit from revenue of £45.8b? Please don't tell me that you've confused revenue with profit. statista.com/statistics/496….

Last year alone, private firms reported profits of £45 billion from our country’s domestic energy system. If that money had been kept in the hands of the hardworking public, it could have been used to save each household almost £2,000 on their #energy bills. #PublicOwnership

@LabourList IFS: "the single most cost effective policy for reducing the number of children living below the poverty line is removing the two-child limit".

Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would not a “silver bullet” to reducing child poverty in Britain, a leading think tank has warned. labourlist.org/2024/10/govern…

bdtuc.co.uk/2024/09/30/tra… A new article on our website....

Check out "Trade Unions and the climate crisis: green jobs and just transitions" - our meeting in Blackburn Library on 16th October, 7pm eventbrite.com/e/trade-unions… @Eventbrite

Save Sharifeh's Life chng.it/gSHhG8Jm via @UKChange Sharifeh's case has been highlighted by "Human Rights Watch": hrw.org/.../iran-labor…

New on our website: bdtuc.co.uk/2024/06/25/jun…

NEW article on our website: bdtuc.co.uk/2024/05/14/rea…

NEW ON OUR WEBSITE: bdtuc.co.uk/2024/05/13/tra…

Trades Council responds to OFCOM consultation: bdtuc.co.uk/2024/04/12/tra…

Coaches are booked to take people from all over Lancashire down to London for the next big national demonstration on Sat 9 March. Here's the Blackburn & Accrington coach. #CeasefireNOW EQUALITY + JUSTICE = PEACE.