Forwarded from the Campaign Against Immigration Controls
Bob Archer,
Press and Website Officer,
National Shop Stewards Network
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Subject: Solidarity with Sacked Lindsey Workers Monday 4-6pm
REINSTATE THE LINDSEY OIL REFINERY WORKERS NOW!
Following our conference today the Campaign Against Immigration Controls (CAIC)
calls for the immediate reinstatement of the workers who were sacked by Total,
Jacobs and other subcontractors at the Lindsey Oil refinery in Lincolnshire
last Thursday night.
We are calling a solidarity protest at the Total headquarters in Watford on
Monday 22nd June, 4-6pm.
Why is our campaign supporting these sacked workers?
• We support the rights of all workers - regardless of their nationality or
immigration status - to organise in the workplace to protect and improve their
wages, conditions and livelihood.
• CAIC activists include many migrant workers whose conditions of work are
very precarious, like cleaners. These workers are often servicing the offices
of the rich and powerful but paid a pittance. Again and again migrant workers
who organise unions and fight for a living wage are victimised and sacked and
sometimes face detention and deportation. The Lindsey workers have also been
victimised for fighting back to protect their jobs. CAIC activists are also in
the GMB and Unite unions in struggle at Lindsey: we say that all workers should
make common cause against the bosses.
• CAIC supports the freedom of movement of workers. But we are opposed to
people being pushed around and uprooted by the bosses or their state. It is
clear to us that the posting of workers from Europe like this, housed in
barracks segregated from the rest of the workforce, is about breaking up
existing unions in order to undermine hard-won agreements and set in motion the
race to the bottom. We need workers' organisation and solidarity across borders
to stop this. So we say NO REDUNDANCES! NO VICTIMISTATION! and NO DEPORTATIONS!
• CAIC believes that there is plenty of useful work to be done. It is only
our insane capitalist economy, run for private profit, that makes desperately
needed projects unprofitable and sets worker against worker, from the same or
different nations. The Government should STOP THROWING MONEY AT THE BANKS and
invest in socially useful, clean and green industries and instead.
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
* Directions
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=wd...
Or Meet at Euston Station 3pm, call 07843 945 005
