LOCAL Trade Unionists will be joining colleagues from across the continent to lobby heads of state next weekend.
Members of the Bury, Radcliffe and District Trades Union Council will be alongside union members from 23 countries at the Amsterdam summit on the single currency. Bury hosted one leg of a march through Britain taking campaigners to the Dutch city, and a total of 30 marchers from as far afield as Finland and Algiers will converge on Amsterdam a week tomorrow. Council secretary Mr Brain Marden said they would be pushing for a single currency to be a benefit to European workers.
He said: "Bury, Radcliffe and District TUC were privileged to host a section of the march, and are proud to be organising transport to a major international event.
"It is the first time we have organised, as a group, to send people to a demonstration beyond these shores."
The local group will leave Bury next Friday, June 13 and arrive in Amsterdam in time for the rally on Saturday. They will return on Sunday.
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