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Unity March for employment June 1976. More than 200 people marched through Burnley carrying banners demanding the right to work, to the shouts of What do we want? Work. There were similar marches throughout the country as part of a national day of action against unemployment and cuts in public spending. The demonstration was organized by Burnley Trades Council and following the march the assembly gathered on Curzon Street to hear speeches by Mike Cooney, works convenor at Lucas Aerospace and Albert Shaw, secretary of Burnley & nelson Textile Workers Union. He told the meeting that in a report from the County Planning Officer 1000 people left the Burnley area each year since 1971, movement related to unemployment in the area.