A new year greeting from the ARAB WORKERS UNION based in Israel whom our branch is affiliated to .
To read more goto their website

DONATION TO THE HAVEN CHRISTMAS APPEAL
The haven is a local organisation supporting women and dependent children who are vulnerable to domestic violence.
For many years this branch has contributed to the above appeal and this year has been no exception. 
a letter of thanks has been received here.
it is not too late for individuals to support the appeal.

DECEMBER BRANCH NEWSLETTER
can be read here

FIGHTING TO SAVE SERVICES

THE LABOUR COUNCILS PROPOSED BUDGET CUTS INCLUDE THE CLOSURE 

OF WARSTONES RESOURCE CENTRE .

Warstones is a highly respected resource for elderly people providing a range of services

in the South west of Wolverhampton. The council is proposing to transfer these services to other centres in Wolverhampton.

Staff at Warstones believe that these proposals will not be in the best interests of the present residents (or indeed future residents) and have begun a campaign to protect Warstones.

The things they say:

Councillor Evans (cabinet member for Adult services) says of the proposal

" we believe they will have minimal effect on service users but enable us to make important savings by better using our other resource centres"

In 2010 when (the then Tory) council were proposing to close Underhill house and move its residents Cllr Evans said;

“There’s got to be a change in legislation so that Councils can’t just close homes like this just because the controlling group wants to deliver a zero per cent Council Tax increase. 

"It should only be allowed when these homes are failing, and when it’s in the residents interests.”

we couldn't agree more with Cllr Evans!

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  Warstones staff when they recently handed in a 6500 name petition calling for warstones to remain open