BANNER DONATED: An historic trade union banner has been donated to Beamish Museum in County Durham by activists on Teesside. The banner represents the Middlesbrough and Districts branch of COHSE, the Confederation of Health Service Employees, which was founded in 1946, and later b4ecame part of UNISON whose Tees Esk and Wear Valleys branch donated it.
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