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The Women Chainmakers Festival is organised by trade unions in conjunction with the local community. With have live music, stalls, speeches, the Midlands TUC aims to maintain this event as the largest celebration of womens' history in Britain.
The festival celebrates the achievements of 800 women Chainmakers who fought to establish a minimum wage for their labour in 1910, following a 10 week strike. The local employers sought to deny them their rights but were met with forceful opposition. The strike was led by trade unionist Mary Macarthur, who founded the National Federation of Women Workers and later stood for Parliament as a Labour candidate.
Saturday 9th June marked the centenary of the opening of the Workers Institute. Local sculpter Luke Perry built a monument in Mary Macarthur Gardens to the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath, their famous strike of 1910 and Mary Macarthur who roused them. This was unveiled in the morning and was followed by a march and banner procession to the eighth Women Chainmakers festival in Bearmore Park in Cradley Heath.
The site of the festival is at the heart of the Cradley Heath community where the Chainmakers worked and lived - and fought their successful ten week dispute to secure a minimum wage for their sector.
The festival included a performance stage, community tent, childrens tent, unionlearning tent with plenty of entertainment in between.
Midlands TUC Regional Secretary Rob Johnston said: “We are delighted to bring the Chainmakers back to Cradley Heath. This places our joint celebration of Mary Macarthur, who led the strike, back in the heart of the community where the women fought for their rights to a minimum wage. It was a great achievement and we are indebted to Sandwell Council for their support in helping us continue to celebrate this important event. We are looking to make this festival an integral part of Cradley Heath for the foreseeable future and look forward to a long and successful partnership with the council to make this happen.”
Sandwell Council Leader Councillor Darren Cooper said: “We are very pleased the TUC is again prepared to organise the festival in conjunction with the council. This is an event which celebrates our local history and marks one of the most important events to take place anywhere in the country – and it is here on our patch in Cradley Heath. The festival has been moved forward to June to coincide with the unveiling of a statue of a woman chainmaker at Mary Macarthur Park in Cradley Heath, organised by the council and the Friends of Mary Macarthur Gardens Group.”
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When Igor Hincu founded a company making toys eight years ago, he had no idea he’d be saving lives with his production. But with the COVID-19 crisis, Igor made a quick decision to shift gears. When it became clear that Moldovan health workers often lack much needed personal protective equipment, his workshop near Chisinau started producing visors – plastic protective screens.
The equipment he used was a laser-cutting device, he purchased with support from UNDP and the EU. Four years ago, Igor received a grant through the EU’s Confidence Building Measures Programme, implemented by UNDP, to buy the device, which allowed him to expand business.
Read more: bit.ly/2xuPN9M
Photos: Dinu Bubulici / UNDP Moldova
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