Solidarity picket with Gate Gourmet Strikers
Elise | 12.10.2005 08:45 | London | Oxford
SOLIDARITY PICKET WITH GATE GOURMET STRIKERS
Sunday 16 October 2005 - 11 am to 2pm at Beacon Hill
Nearest tube: Hatton Cross, turn left out of the station and left again to the bus stop and take Bus H23 to the picket line (about five minutes bus ride, ask the driver)
Sunday 16 October 2005 - 11 am to 2pm at Beacon Hill
Nearest tube: Hatton Cross, turn left out of the station and left again to the bus stop and take Bus H23 to the picket line (about five minutes bus ride, ask the driver)
The dispute at Gate Gourmet is not over. The workers are still on the picket line. The following facts need to be publicised:
1) While it has been reported in the press that a deal has been agreed, none of the workers have been given any information about who is to be offered their jobs back, who will face compulsory redundancy and who will be simply sacked. They are in a limbo.
2) The company is deliberately delaying in the process of implementing the deal because after 9th November the strikers will no longer be entitled to take the company to Industrial Tribunal.
3) The workers are receiving only £50 a week from the TGWU and this is not enough for to survive.
4) The company is trying to force those made compulsorily redundant to sign a ‘compromise’ agreement giving up their right to take their cases to Industrial Tribunal
The workers would also like to highlight the brutal behaviour of the management of Gate Gourmet on 10 August – the day the dispute began. The workers were locked in the canteen without any food or water or access to toilets for almost 8 hours. Even one worker who was pregnant was not allowed to go to the toilet. They were physically dragged and thrown out of the building by police and 60-70 private security guards who had been specially called in by the management to be present that day. One pregnant woman and one woman aged over 50 were among those violently thrown out with 4 security
guards to each worker.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
The workers still need your support on the picket line on Beacon Hill outside Terminal 4. They are there from 7am to 7pm.
On Sunday 16th October Gate Gourmet Support Groups and South Asia Solidarity Group have called a peaceful MASS SOLIDARITY DAY on the picketline from 11am to 2pm.
The Gate Gourmet urgently need financial support, we urge you to call upon the trade union leadership to act on this so that we can continue our struggle which will affect all workers
We also urge the trade union leadership to launch an appeal for every trade-unionist to contribute £1 towards the strike
Statement from the Gate Gourmet Support Groups
(Central London and West London-Southall)
and South Asia Solidarity Group
(Details:
sasg@southasiasolidarity.org, contactrana82@hotmail.com)
1) While it has been reported in the press that a deal has been agreed, none of the workers have been given any information about who is to be offered their jobs back, who will face compulsory redundancy and who will be simply sacked. They are in a limbo.
2) The company is deliberately delaying in the process of implementing the deal because after 9th November the strikers will no longer be entitled to take the company to Industrial Tribunal.
3) The workers are receiving only £50 a week from the TGWU and this is not enough for to survive.
4) The company is trying to force those made compulsorily redundant to sign a ‘compromise’ agreement giving up their right to take their cases to Industrial Tribunal
The workers would also like to highlight the brutal behaviour of the management of Gate Gourmet on 10 August – the day the dispute began. The workers were locked in the canteen without any food or water or access to toilets for almost 8 hours. Even one worker who was pregnant was not allowed to go to the toilet. They were physically dragged and thrown out of the building by police and 60-70 private security guards who had been specially called in by the management to be present that day. One pregnant woman and one woman aged over 50 were among those violently thrown out with 4 security
guards to each worker.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
The workers still need your support on the picket line on Beacon Hill outside Terminal 4. They are there from 7am to 7pm.
On Sunday 16th October Gate Gourmet Support Groups and South Asia Solidarity Group have called a peaceful MASS SOLIDARITY DAY on the picketline from 11am to 2pm.
The Gate Gourmet urgently need financial support, we urge you to call upon the trade union leadership to act on this so that we can continue our struggle which will affect all workers
We also urge the trade union leadership to launch an appeal for every trade-unionist to contribute £1 towards the strike
Statement from the Gate Gourmet Support Groups
(Central London and West London-Southall)
and South Asia Solidarity Group
(Details:
sasg@southasiasolidarity.org, contactrana82@hotmail.com)
Elise
e-mail:
contactrana82@hotmail.com
Homepage:
http://sasg@southasiasolidarity.org