Union Friday hits the streets of Stoke-on-Trent

Today is Union Friday when trade unionists across the midlands are hitting the streets to campaign against the BNP in the forthcoming local elections. With the BNP fielding ten candidates in Stoke-on-Trent this has become one of the main focal points for anti fascist campaigning.
Cheryl Pidgeon, pictured here with our youngest campaigner today, said, "The elections in Stoke-on-Trent have taken on a new urgency with the change in the electoral system  - this gives us the opportunity to banish the BNP from Stoke completely for four years. As trade unionists we should take every opportunity to combat a party that is diametrically opposed to our values of equality, fairness and social cohesion. Stoke-on-Trent will be a better place without the BNP in the Council Chamber."
Cheryl continued, "Children like this young man should be growing up in a world without discrimination and hate and it is incumbent on us to do our very best to deliver a hate free world for our children."
Teams of campaigners have leafleted the railway and bus stations in Stoke and news is just in that in Birmingham teams are covering New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill stations. Unison, which has coordinated the action in Birmingham have said that teams will be leafleting throughout the day to catch both shoppers and commuters.