ACT NOW! TUC Solidarity Rally with US workers and unions, 4 April

Solidarity with US unions

We are one campaign

March 2011

6-8pm, Monday 4 April 2011

Congress House, Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS

On Thursday 4 April 1968, Dr Martin Luther King Jnr was assassinated in Memphis where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers to demand the right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better life.

The AFL-CIO has designated Monday 4 April 2011 a Day of Solidarity with the public sector workers of Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and a dozen other states where right-wing corporate politicians are trying to take away these rights.

The TUC is holding a rally of solidarity with the workers and trade unions of the USA.

Speakers for the evening will include:

• Kate Allen, Director - Amnesty International UK
• Tony Burke, Unite Assistant General Secretary and TUC General Council
• Prof Keith Ewing, Professor of Public Law - Kings College London
• And guests from the US trade union movement

The rally with be chaired by Owen Tudor, Head of EU and International Relations at TUC.

To attend this event you must register by sending your name, union/organisation and a contact e-address to pbrown@tuc.org.uk. (Any further information about the event will be sent to you by email). We would appreciate your registration no later than Friday 1 April 2011. Registration is free and there will be light refreshments.

Please visit www.tuc.org.uk/wisconsin for more information