Antonia Bance

Antonia Bance

Labour — Tipton and Wednesbury

Speaking in the House of Commons on 16 July 2025

Debate

Commemoration of Matchgirls’ Strike

Contribution

Does my hon. Friend agree that commemorating the struggle of workers, particularly women workers, is key to understanding working-class history—our history? Does she also agree that the matchgirls should be commemorated alongside industrial struggles across the country, not least those of the 19 teenage girls who were killed in the disaster of 1922 in the Dudley Port factory, the Wednesbury “Tube Town” strikes of 1913 and the 1910 women chainmakers’ strike in Cradley Heath, all of which helped to form our modern-day trade union movement?

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