CND’s TUC Congress 2020 fringe meeting. Visit the website to learn about CND’s work with trade unions and to affiliate your branch.
As the pandemic hit hard in the early stages of the lockdown, government urged rapid changes in industrial production. Many companies, including those that that make parts of the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system, switched to making ventilators, protective visors and other NHS and PPE requirements. This experience shows it can be done – and it has never been more urgent to produce for the public good.
Chair: Kate Hudson, General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Speakers: Sam Mason, PCS Policy Officer Hilary Wainwright, Red Pepper, participant in original Lucas Plan initiative Bert Schouwenburg, former International Officer GMB
With Annie Tunnicliffe, CND’s trade unions worker.
Further information:
Nuclear weapons provide no protection against the multiple crises we are facing
Britain’s pandemic response shows we can move beyond a militarised economy