Join Manchester Trades Union Council at the Mechanics Institute and Sackville Gardens

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Manchester BranchUnity is strength

The ManchesterMay Day Festival Saturday 29th April 2017

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MANCHESTER TRADES UNION

COUNCIL

Presents for your entertainment and pleasure

Saturday 29th April

11:00 March for the NHS from All Saints Park to Sackville Gardens – bring banners, balloons and make some noise.

12:00 Join us in Sackville Gardens to hear the plan for the day.

Sackville Gardens

From 12:00 Real Junk Food Manchester will serve a selection of hot dishes, snacks, treats and kid-friendly fodder.

From 12:00 Coffee from Coffee Cranks

13:00 Woodcraft Folk - Education for Social Change

14:45 University of Manchester Students’ Union craftivism

Stalls

MTUC, NUJ, Palestine Solidarity, CWU, Unite Community, Musicians Union, GM Hazards, FBU, GM Law Centre, Stand up to Racism, Friends of Kurdistan, Unison LGBT, Manchester UWC.

Mechanics Institute

The bar will be open all day selling alcohol, tea and coffee.

Peterloo Room

13:20 Greater Manchester & District CND. Trident: Alternative Production - Jobs Not Bombs.

14:45 Manchester NUT: More than a Score. Primary assessment in England’s schools.

16:00 Greater Manchester Unite Community. The basic income. Has its time come? Is it the answer?

Mary Quaile Room

13:00 Manchester and Salford NUJ: Reporting Poverty – the film.

14:15 Mary Quaile Club. Any help possible will be given. Launch of the website of the Minutes of the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council 1895-1919.

15:30 Manchester People’s Assembly. The People’s Question Time.

16:45 BFAWU. Trade Unions and Corbyn’s Labour. With Ronnie Draper.

John Tocher RoomNorth West Unison’s International Zone

13:15 Venezuela – Democracy and social progress under attack

14:30 Latin America – Reform and Reaction

15:45 International solidarity and Trade Union organising – Irish Trade Union SIPTU

Woods Room

14:00 I, Daniel Blake. Ken Loach’s Palme D’Or and BAFTA winning film.

The Hall

12:00 Stalls: UCU, PCS, CND, BFAWU, NUT, Cuba Solidarity, Unison, GMB, Mary Quaile Club, Musicians Union, Resistance Books, UCU, Pathfinder Books, Thompsons Solicitors, The Morning Star, WCML, GMATUC, People’s Assembly, People’s History Museum, Global Justice Now, Stop CETA.

17:30 Manchester May Day Festival Rally

• Ethel Buckley - SIPTU• Lynn Collins - Secretary of the

North West TUC• Ronnie Draper - General

Secretary of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union

• Ruby Kelman, talking about the Woodcraft Folk’s involvement in the union movement

• Lisa Turnbull - Unison rep, Durham Teaching Assistants

• Holly Fishman Crook - BECTU Ritzy Cinemas campaign

• Huda Ammori, University of Manchester Students’ Union

19:30 Music Night

Music all night from Tony Harper, Claire Mooney, Quiet Loner and Honeyfeet Duo - Ríoghnach Connolly & Ellis Davies.

Sunday 30th April

13:00 A May Day Guided Walk around Manchester Peace Trail.

18:30 An evening of comedy, poetry and fun with Kerry Leigh, Gerry Potter, Annette Fagon and Steph Pike in the Mechanics Institute Hall