Trade unionists join the protest outside the Labour Party Conference

Union banners on the march (Pic: Guy Smallman)

There were at least 80 union banners on the march, a very high number. They included:

Unison

Concorde NHS
Kirklees
Manchester passenger transport
London fire brigade
Telford
Salford mental health
Dundee city
University of Edinburgh
Tayside
Brent
City of Edinburgh
Surrey county
Tower Hamlets
Greater London region
Wigan
Manchester Community & Health, and Manchester Pennine branches produced a special joint placard “Fund Health not War”
Bolton Metro
Sheffield North General Hospital
Darlington
Northern Region
Newcastle City health
NHS Logistics
Plymouth
Sandwell general
Scottish Enterprise and careers development
SOAS
Avon mental health
Hammersmith

RMT

London transport regional committee
Manchester and North West

PCS

National
North West region
North Merseyside
Salford revenue
Defra London
Liverpool DWP
Manchester and Salford DWP

Amicus

Merseyside and Cheshire health service
Telford
Greater Manchester IT

NUJ

National
London Magazine
Manchester
South Yorkshire

NUT

Islington
Liverpool
Camden
Birmingham
Bradford
Bolton
Redbridge
Cambridge

UCU

National
Cambridge
City & Islington
North West region
Blackburn College

Trades Councils

Aberdeen
Camden
Sheffield
Cambridge

Bectu

National banner

CWU

London north west C&C

National Union of Students

Goldsmiths
SOAS
University of Manchester

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Organising for Fighting Unions conference

Don’t forget the Organising for Fighting Unions conference which takes place on Saturday 11 November at Shoreditch Town Hall in London. It will discuss how to build effective unions and what sort of political representation they need.

It is backed by hundreds of union representatives and groups in the frontline such as the Merseyside firefighters.

Speakers include RMT general secretary Bob Crow and John McDonnell, the left wing Labour MP who is challenging for the leadership of the Labour Party.

Registration fee £10 per delegate. Contact Organising for Fighting Unions, 9 Club Row, London E1 6JX. E-mail sam@respectcoalition.org or phone 020 7613 5624.