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Trade Councils' conferences to be moved from London as TUC sells Congress House

TRADE councils’ conferences will now be held outside London, TUC Congress heard today, after it was revealed that plans to sell Congress House will make them unaffordable.

Councils delegate Kevin Allsop warned that “we have virtually no funds” to send delegates to the capital for annual conferences.

He warned that the TUC decision to always hold annual conferences in London meant the voices of care workers in particular, most of whom are women, were not being heard.

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