Bee in the City #041 "Sylvia" at the People's History Museum

Image: © David Dixon Taken: 6 Aug 2018

“Sylvia”, Bee number 41 on the “Bee in the City” sculpture trail was located inside The People's History Museum. This Bee, named after Sylvia Pankhurst, was created by Sneaky Raccoon and sponsored by UNISON Manchester and UNISON North West. The following information is quoted from the board on its base: "It was at the Manchester Mechanics' Institute in 1868 that the first meeting of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) took place. Fifty years later, in 1918, the Pankhurst's led a victory that was meant to mark the beginning of the end of a war for gender equality. Sylvia Pankhurst, a suffragette, imprisoned numerous times, came to see the struggle for women to have the vote as just one strand in a larger struggle for equality." "UNISON members work in many different roles in providing public services. It is the union for workers in sectors including local government, the NHS, the police service, education, utilities, transport and the voluntary sector. With 200,000 members it is the biggest union in the region and more than two-thirds of its members are women."

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