Northamptonshire activists a step closer to new trades council

Trade union activists in Northamptonshire have moved a step closer to establishing a new trades council for the Corby and Kettering boroughs at a meeting held at the Corby Labour and Trades Union club. Union members from four unions have nominated a shadow executive to pave the way for a formal inaugural Annual General meeting of the new body later this year.
Trades council activity in the boroughs had waned in recent years but fresh activists have reinforced former stalwarts and have generated new ideas to take the work forward.
Alan Weaver, TUC Regional Policy and Campaigns Officer for the midlands said, "With all the current threats to working people, their jobs and services it is just the right time to be forming a new and dynamic trades council. With Northamptonshire County Council slashing jobs and services and the threat of the BNP never far away the trades council will have plenty to get its' teeth into."
Pictured are activists from Unite, GMB, Unison and the NASUWT unions.