UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive
LONDON VESTA SOLIDARITY - SAVE JOBS, SAVE THE PLANET
22-07-2009 16:26
2 events in London to show solidarity with workers occupying Britain's only wind turbine factory, their families and community & the planetVestas situation update - two arrests; mass walk-in gets food to occupiers
22-07-2009 14:41
A mass walk-in by the protestors outside the Vestas plant got food to the 20 workers occupying the upper storey. Two climate activists have been arrested on dubious grounds related to the effort to get past the police blockade set up to prevent protestors taking food to the occupiers.NCADC News Service Wednesday 22nd July 2009
22-07-2009 07:38
UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan July 2009Who Will Read This Report? It has an anodyne sounding name but reveals more about Afghanistan than all the spin put out by military strategists and refugee haters.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a6477ef2.html ?
Vestas Occupation - Tuesday reports - cops and food!
21-07-2009 20:36
Here are some reports of today's activities at the occupied wind-turbine blade factroy in Newport on the Isle of Wight. There has been an amazing amount of quick and dynamic solidarity shown with those in occupation but more is always needed. Today the cops entered the site and also stopped food from being delivered to the occupiers.Vestas Workers Speak Out
21-07-2009 12:23
A statement released by the workers in occupation at the Vestas wind turbine blade factory in Newport, on the Isle of Wight.Demo outside the factory 5pm today!
Urgent - support the Vestas occupation NOW
20-07-2009 23:37
HELP THE VESTAS FACTORY OCCUPATION NOWTELL THE GOVERNMENT WE NEED THOSE GREEN JOBS
Workers at the Vestas Wind Turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have JUST NOW occupied their factory. They are fighting for 600 jobs and the future of the planet. They need help now.
Support the Vestas factory occupation - what you can do
20-07-2009 22:07
Workers at the Vestas wind turbine blade plant on the Isle of Wight have occupied their factory in Newport in an attempt to prevent its closure, which was scheduled for the end of this month. Their brave fight in is an example of what workers can do when they get together and take militant action to save jobs and sustainable industries.Vestas Factory OCCUPIED
20-07-2009 19:58
Save Vestas - Defend Jobs, Save the Planet - Support the OccupationWorkers at the Vestas Wind Turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have JUST NOW occupied their factory. They are fighting for 600 jobs and the future of the planet. They need help now.
Democra-Phobia: Fear of Citizen Power in Honduras
20-07-2009 18:59
“If, as now appears not impossible, the Honduran Coup can be defeated by the large majority of ordinary people largely independently of the actions of the governments, that would be a greater victory for popular struggles than any other sequence of events.”That is the authentic story from Honduras: the story written by its own people, from below.
And that’s why the “talks” in Costa Rica were a circus sideshow.
From here on out, it’s all about “Citizen Power,” the immediate history of the steps the people of Honduras take to organize their own freedom and a more authentic democracy. That’s been our focus here for the past month. And it will continue to be the central thrust of our reporting.
Update: Here's an important development in international solidarity with the popular movements of Honduras:
The International Transport Workers Federation has called upon its four-and-a-half million members in 656 labor unions worldwide (it includes Longshoremen, Teamsters and Seafarers among other union sectors in the US and throughout the world) to refuse to load or unload products from the 650 merchant ships that are registered under the Honduran flag for as long as the coup regime is in place."
Demonstration to save Vestas Wind Turbine factory
20-07-2009 12:49
Demonstration to save Vestas Wind Turbine factoryWednesday 22nd July , 6.00 pm
Outside the Department of Energy and Climate Change, No 3 Whitehall Place
(off Whitehall, Charing Cross tube)
Out of sight, out of mind ~ Experiences of immigration detention in the UK
20-07-2009 10:51
A new report ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ released today by detainee rights charity Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) reveals the unacceptable human cost of indefinite immigration detention in the UK and calls on the government to halt its plans to increase detention capacity.Solidarity with Vestas Workers from Climate Camp UK
20-07-2009 08:21
Around the Campaigns Monday 20th July 2009
20-07-2009 05:57
From behind the 20ft walls of Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre, there is not much view of the outside world. For the Iloba family who, after five years in the UK, were bundled into the back of a van to be deported, there is also little to view for the future. Betty Iloba and her children, Toby (18), Saskia (17), and Emmanuel (14), spoke of how they were sent to the UK by their policeman father, who feared for their lives, just months before he himself was killed.
http://tinyurl.com/Ilobafamily Workers' Fightback: Update 11
19-07-2009 20:41
We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!
We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!
A4e – War Criminals, Fraudsters and Bullies
19-07-2009 16:55
A4E, the bunch of scumbags contracted by the Labour Government to harrass and bully benefit claimants, have been busy attempting to set up an ‘online community of people who are dedicated to improving people’s lives.’(1)Brighton Class Struggle Forum – The Visteon Dispute - Wednesday 22 July
18-07-2009 21:46
The Visteon dispute – a post mortemWednesday 22 July 7pm
The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton.
First meeting of Brighton Class Struggle Forum, themed around a post-mortem of the Viseton dispute.
Demonstrate outside the offices of Press TV - lead by G.Galloway
18-07-2009 10:50
Oppose Iranian state lies and censorshipSolidarity with Iranian political prisoners, students and workers !
UNISON management attacks socialists
18-07-2009 03:15
French workers paid 30,000 Euros not to blow up factory
17-07-2009 22:59
The company JLG in Tonneins, in the Lot-et-Garonne fell into the hands of 53 workers who have been given the sack. They demanded 30,000 euros each to leave otherwise they would blow up the factory. Within 48 hours they got what they wantedStrike Action Shuts Down London Met University
15-07-2009 17:48
London Metropolitan University came to a halt on Tuesday 14th of July as hundreds of workers went on a UCU/UNISON coordinated strike in protest at continued job cuts and outsourcing. Workers and students set up picket lines at every building of North and City campuses.
See report and photos in IMC-London:
http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1775