Birmingham Trades Council is the

trades council A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area. Most commonly, they represent unions in a given geographical area, whether at the district, city, region, or provincial or ...

body which brings together

trade union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

ists from across

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

. Its headquarters were formerly in

Digbeth Digbeth is an area of Central Birmingham, England. Following the destruction of the Inner Ring Road, Digbeth is now considered a district within Birmingham City Centre. As part of the Big City Plan, Digbeth is undergoing a large redevelopment ...

, with a huge mural above the canteen area depicting the 1972

Battle of Saltley Gate The Battle of Saltley Gate was the mass picketing of a fuel storage depot in Birmingham, England, in February 1972 during a national miners' strike. When the strike began on 9 January 1972, it was generally considered that the miners "could not ...

Secretaries

Presidents

:1869: Thomas Green :1870: :1871: H. Giles :1874: :1875: C. R. Bowkett :1878: J. Lewis :1880: Allan Grainger :1887:

John Valentine Stevens John Valentine Stevens (13 March 1852 – 14 August 1925) was a British trade unionist and Lib-Lab politician. Born in Bristol, Stevens completed an apprenticeship as a tinplate worker before moving to Birmingham. In 1874, he joined the Amalgama ...

:1889:

Alfred Jephcott Alfred Roger Jephcott JP (14 February 1853 – 14 March 1932) was a British engineer, trade unionist and Conservative Party politician from Birmingham. He sat in the House of Commons from 1918 to 1929. Early life and family Jephcott was born ...

:1892: C. C. Cooke :1895:

Arthur Eades Arthur Eades (17 December 1863 – 3 November 1933) was a British trade unionist. Born in Enfield, Eades' father died when he was a young child, following which the family moved to Birmingham. He began working as a half-timer at the age of e ...

David E. Martin, "Eades, Arthur", ''Dictionary of Labour Biography'', vol.II, pp.131–132 :1898: Henry Simpson :1899: Joseph Millington :1902: :1904: W. J. Morgan :1909: :1910: Joseph Kesterton :1912: :1914: E. E. Edwards :1916: G. Stanway :1917: F. W. Rudland :1919: F. E. Willis :1920: A. Shakespeare :1921: A. P. Cassidy :1922: H. G. Johnson :1924: :1929: H. G. Johnson :1933: :1937: C. G. Spragg :1939: Walter Samuel Lewis :1942: Ernest Haynes :1951: Bob Shorthouse :1955: George Varnom :1961: W. E. Jarvis

External links

Birmingham Trades Council

References

Trade unions established in 1866

Trades Council A labour council, trades council or industrial council is an association of labour unions or union branches in a given area. Most commonly, they represent unions in a given geographical area, whether at the district, city, region, or provincial or ...

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