Glosamal - Events

Sunday 18 July 2010

Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival

A group of branch members attended this year's Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival near Dorchester, Dorset. The festival featured the usual mix of music, stalls and speakers.

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		Tony Benn

The Bad Shepherds	Billy Bragg	Billy Bragg

Saturday 13th March 2010

Branch AGM 2010

The Branch AGM was held at The Walls' Club, Barnwood Road, Gloucester. Bob Gibson, Assistant Secretary (Deliveries), Chris Webb (Divisional Rep) and Parmjit Dhanda, MP for Gloucester were the Guest Speakers.

Read The Annual Report

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	Paul Trehearne
	Parmjit Dhanda MP
	Chris Webb
	Bob Gibson

Monday 20th July 2009

The "Keep The Post Public" tour in Gloucester

The National campaign to "Keep The Post Public" visited Gloucester Docks and then Eastgate Street, where members of the public were only too happy to sign the petition and receive leaflets and other goodies.

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The event also featured in the Autumn 2009 newsletter from Gloucester MP Parmjit Dhanda. To see what he had to say, in greater detail, click on the image.

Sunday 19th July

Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival

A group of branch members attended this year's Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival in Tolpuddle , Dorset. The festival featured the usual mix of music, stalls and speakers.

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The "Keep The Post Public" inflatable at Tolpuddle	Members of the South West Equality Forum	Tony Benn
Tony Benn	Billy Bragg	Billy Bragg

June 2009

CWU Annual Conference - Bournemouth

This year's CWU Annual Conference was held in Bournemouth. A delegation of nine members represented the Glosamal branch and spoke on a range of topics.

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The Conference Hall	Ian Trehearne Addresses Conference	Paul Trehearne Addresses Conference
Mike Hartland Addresses Conference	Some of the Branch Delegation	The Conference Hall At The End Of The Day

Saturday 28 March 2009

Put People First Demonstration - G20 TUC March for Jobs

A number of Branch Members travelled to London for the Put People First march & rally. To see some photographs & video from the day, click on the banner below.

Saturday 14 March 2009

Keep the Post Public - Wolverhampton Rally

A number of Branch Members attended the National march and rally organised by the CWU Midlands Region in Minister of State for Postal Affairs Pat McFadden's Wolverhampton constituency. Speakers included Billy Hayes - General Secretary, Dave Ward - Deputy General Secretary and Geraldine Smith MP.

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Tuesday 24th February 2009

National Rally and Lobby - Keep the Post Public, Westminster, London

A delegation of Branch members attended the Rally at the Central Methodist Hall in Westminster. A packed hall heard a range of speeches from everyone from Billy Hayes to Tony Benn and included support from other Trade Union leaders. Gloucester MP Parmjit Dhanda was also due to speak at the meeting, but with so many speakers they ran out of time.

Billy Hayes speaks on the "Pension Deficit"

Some Postal Workers Speak

The full BBC News Report

A short video of our own -

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Entertaining the Press with a Mandy Mask

The meeting ends

Dave Ward is interviewed for TV

Saturday 5th November 2008 Milton Keynes Mail Centre Closure - March & Rally In a move not dissimilar to plans to close Gloucester Mail Centre, Royal Mail has announced the closure of Milton Keynes, and its intention to move sorting operations to Northampton. Around 500 protesters - including a delegation from the GlosAmal Branch - marched from Milton Keynes Mail Centre to a Rally in Bletchley.
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Monday 22nd September 2008 Labour Party Conference – CWU Rally & March A delegation of branch members travelled to Manchester for a Rally and March which culminated outside the Labour Party Conference. Amongst those addressing the Rally were two CWU sponsored MP's, as well as Dave Ward and Billy Hayes. A noisy march brought Manchester city centre to a standstill and was even noisier outside the Conference Hall.
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There is also some video of the event -

Monday 4th August 2008

March And Rally In Support Of “The Bristol 3”

Castle Park, Bristol

In the postal dispute which took place last year, three delivery postal workers from Bristol were sacked on charges completely ‘trumped-up’ by the company.

The campaign to reinstate our members will ultimately be decided at an Employment Tribunal scheduled for later in the summer. The Bristol and District Branch has been campaigning locally on behalf of our members and are prepared to ballot for strike action should Royal Mail refuse or ignore a Tribunal decision to reinstate.

The campaign has been publicised in the media and adverts have been placed in the press. A series of membership meetings have taken place throughout the Branch area and there was a mass March and Rally on Monday 4th August 2008, attended by Glosamal members.

See The BBC Coverage Of The Event

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CWU Annual Conference 2008

The CWU Annual Conference was held in Liverpool, from 8 - 13 June 2008. A delegation of eight members represented the Glosamal branch and spoke on a range of topics.

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Paul Trehearne Addresses Conference

Colin Sayles Addresses Conference

Margaret Hill Addresses Conference

Mike Hartland Addresses Conference (video)

On Saturday 19th January 2008 a group of branch members joined a march in Burslem, in support of 12 sacked postal workers, which had led to a strike at the office with the absolute support of all staff. Some of the photographs taken can be seen below. (click on a picture for a larger version)