Report on the State of the former Coalfields 2019.

https://www.coalfields-regen.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-State-of-the-Coalfields-2019.pdf

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NUM Yorkshire Area Memorial 2019

Heritage Open Days at the NUM Miners’ Hall

Orgreave Rally 2019

MINERS’ STRIKE 35th ANNIVERSARY

ANNUAL ORGREAVE RALLY
Orgreave Lane, Sheffield, S13 9NE

Saturday 15th June 2019, 1.00pm

SPEAKERS

Matt Wrack
General Secretary, Fire Brigades Union (FBU)
Steve Hedley
Senior Assistant General Secretary, National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT)
Sarah Champion
Member of Parliament for Rotherham
Rose Hunter
North Staffs Miners Wives Action Group (WAPC)
Chris Kitchen
General Secretary, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)
John Dunn
Former Miner and Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign

COMPERES

Chris Peace
Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign & Labour Party Prospective Candidate, North East Derbyshire
Joe Rollin
Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign & Unite the Union

MUSIC

Sheffield Socialist Choir
Unite Brass Band

Come along and support the Annual Orgreave Rally organised by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign, commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike and the events at Orgreave.

Please bring banners, placards, drums, whistles, family and friends. Let’s show the Government we will not be silenced, we won’t go away and our vibrant campaign for Truth and Justice goes from strength to strength.

Led by the Unite Brass Band, come and march with us through Orgreave and support our call for a Public Inquiry for Truth and Justice for Striking Miners brutalised by police at the Orgreave Coking plant on 18th June 1984

David Jones & Joe Green memorial

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Dupuytren’s Contracture

Dupuytren’s contracture will be added to the list of Prescribed Industrial Diseases 9 Dec 2019. http://num.org.uk/news/dupuytrens-contracture/

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BEIS Select Committee update on the MPS.

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Today we remember those who tragically lost their lives in the Aberfan disaster 21/10/1966.

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A very productive meeting with Labour MP’s including the Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell to discuss the ongoing NUM campaign on the MPS guarantee..

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