BFAWU conference meets each year to discuss, review and update the union’s policy agenda. It is the highest decision-making body in the union. Delegates vote on resolutions that will provide the outline of the Unions work over the coming year. 2025 Annual Conference will be held at; Yarnfield Park, Yarnfield, Stone, Staffordshire, ST15 0NL The venue is a cashless venue […]
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An annual event, featuring national entertainers and speakers, including a ‘MaryMacarthur’ in period costume delivering one of Mary’s rousing speeches and a procession of modern unions and ‘strikers’ dressed as Edwardian chainmakers, the festival ensures that this historic episode is celebrated by the local community and trade unionists from all over the country. The Women Chainmakers’ Festival is coordinated by […]
Held on the second Saturday of July the Durham Miners Gala sees trade unionists from across the country descend on Durham city and the event has developed into the largest gathering of trade unionists in the country. Highlights include wave after wave of banners, each typically accompanied by a brass band, which are marched to the old Racecourse, where political speeches […]
This annual festival where thousands of people come together to celebrate trade unionism and remember the role of the Tolpuddle Martyrs offers a full programme of traditional and contemporary music and other attractions. There has been an annual gathering to mark the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs since 1930s. The event sees thousands of trade unionists from around the UK […]
The MU’s next biennial Delegate Conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel, City Centre Liverpool, on Tuesday 22 July and Wednesday 23 July 2025 Conference is an exciting event that gives members the chance to produce new MU policy, guide the future work of the MU, engage in debate on the issues that matter to them most and ensure that […]
The 157th annual TUC Congress will be held on 7 - 10 September 2025, Brighton. Information for sponsors, exhibitors and fringe organisers TUC Congress over the years
We are looking forward to this year’s festival, more information to follow soon, please put the date in your diaries, and hopefully see you all then.
Support for electoral reform is growing and as a GMB member, we need your help to bring the rest of the GMB on board. Please will you consider taking our motion to your Branch meeting for GMB Congress 2026? Before doing so, we appreciate that you may want more information so we have organised an online session exclusively for GMB members where […]
