FORESTRY PAY DEAL
As reported previously Unite workers at the Forestry Commission were due a pay rise and the pay deal has now been settled.
Because Unite members are generally in lower pay bands, they received the best of the pay deal, which was on average 5.5 per cent. The deal has now been implemented.
Unite national officer Paul Travers who alongside former colleague Bev Clarkson reported that, “Talks with management are now ongoing on contractual changes across the Commission.”
THE END OF AN ERA
Joan Trevett of Tolpuddle sadly died in August aged ninety-two, writes friend and Unite activist Tony Gould. Joan and her late husband Oliver made their home for over thirty years in one of the TUC cottages.
Her death marks the end of an era when the NUAAW (Agricultural Workers Union) nominated suitable residents for the TUC cottages in Tolpuddle who were in practice ex-branch secretaries of the Union.
Such was the significance of the need to highlight the "tied cottage" system that in 1934 the six cottages were put up as a tribute to George Loveless and the other five trade union pioneers who were transported to penal settlements in Australia in 1834.
It has been half- forgotten now that workers were thrown out of their homes on the farm if the farmer said he needed it for another worker and are still so dismissed in some cases.
Since the passing of the Rent (Agriculture) Act and the rapid reduction of work in farming businesses and the increase in mechanisation the cottages are let out by the TUC to local, more mature people who need a home and are in fact a valuable source of low-cost housing in Central Dorset.
Joan was born at Winterborne Clenston, not far away from where she was buried near Tolpuddle.
Her grandfather and other members of the family worked on the farm but her father was killed in the Second World War and so she continued to live in Dorset with her mother and grandparents.
She was enormously helpful to Oliver in his union activities and older members may recall how she was part of a team serving tea and cakes to visitors to the Tolpuddle Rally every July which took place after the hay harvest and before the corn harvest began.
Joan, we shall miss you in Tolpuddle and so rest in peace.
Alamy
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