Skip to content or view screen version

Video:Reportage from Bristol rally held by supporters of sacked RollRoyce worker

BIMC vol / IMC UK video vol | 23.08.2005 23:16 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

A short video reportage from last wednesdays rally, organised by supporters of the sacked Rolls Royce worker Jerry Hicks held on 17.08.05 in Bristol Council House. Speakers at the rally included Bob Crow, Jerry Hicks and Tony Benn.

Video rolls royce rally video in quicktime (.mov) 14mb - video/quicktime 14M

Video rolls royce rally video in realmedia (.rm) 15mb - RealMedia 15M

Video rolls royce rally video as mpeg (.mpg) 21mb - video/mpeg 20M

Videostill: Jerry Hicks after speaking
Videostill: Jerry Hicks after speaking

Videostill: Tony Benn speaking
Videostill: Tony Benn speaking

Videosyill: the crowd waiting for speaches to begin
Videosyill: the crowd waiting for speaches to begin

Videostill: crowd applause
Videostill: crowd applause


Video duration: 6 mins 45 seconds
The video is viewable in quicktime, realmedia or as an mpeg.

In the reportage, Bob Crow looks at the similarirites between the Rolls Royce sackings and the current Gate Gourment workers dispute at Heathrow, Jerry Hicks describes how Rolls Royce tried to bribe him to not talk any more about his sacking, and Tony Benn talks of the wider global context of privatisation that this sacking is part of.

There will be a march in Bristol on Friday the 2nd September, assembling at the Council House at 1pm, College Green, Bristol.

From Bristol Indymedia frontpage: With strike action holding the national headlines through the Heathrow strike – it seems that workers are getting together in solidarity to fight for what they believe in. Bristol is no exception: forwarded message writes; Jerry Hicks, a sacked trade unionist working at the Bristol Rolls Royce plant, talked in Cambridge on the Thursday 11th August. The meeting was organized by the Marshall's Aerospace branch of the Amicus Union in Cambridge, but the audience was quite mixed with trade unionists sitting next to anti-war and social justice activists..

Full Bristol Indymedia frontpage article:
 http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=24128

Report back from Jerry Hicks talk in Cambridge:
 http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=24122

Background to Jerry Hicks sacking:
 http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=24054

Need help viewing? Media players:
The videos posted here have been compressed (or encoded) into small
web-friendly sizes. The video has been compressed into 3 different
formats: Qucktime (.mov), Real Player (.rm) or mpeg (.mpg).

All media players below are good for Mac or PC. Thy are all quick and easy
to install (honest!). If you havent done it before, just follow the
installation directions when you click the below links:

To view .mov video files you may need the Apple Quicktime media player:
 http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

To view real media (.rm) video files, you may need the Real Player:
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp_install.shtml

This is a good open source media player, which you can use to play, for example, mpegs:
 http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

BIMC vol / IMC UK video vol
- e-mail: ell@obin.org
- Homepage: http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=24128