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March 29 London union and community conference against immigration controls

Conference organizing group | 21.03.2008 18:51 | Migration | Workers' Movements | London

A national gathering of trade union and community activists called by Finsbury Park RMT and others, in the light of new legislation against illegal working and other ongoing attacks on migrant workers and refugees.

Every day people are being detained and deported.
Every day people are being denied education, health care, the right to work and thrown into destitution because of their immigration status.
Every day people are paid peanuts and made to work in life threatening conditions by unscrupulous employers because of their immigration status.
Every day people die trying to cross borders.
Every day Immigration Officers raid people's homes at dawn and raid migrants at work.

And it is getting worse with new legislation requiring employers to regularly check papers of 'foreigners'.

BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS! If we get together in our workplaces and our communities we can stop this.

To make this happen trade unionists and community activists need to get together to share experiences, develop tactics and networks, find ways of winning trade unions and other organisations to fight these pernicious controls and say No One is Illegal!

So come along to the conference and make this happen.

Speakers include John McDonnell MP, trade union activists, and people who successfully fought back against the immigration system

There will be plenary sessions and workshops and with plenty of time for discussion, including:

- Resisting immigration controls in the workplace
- Access to education, social services, housing & health
- Resisting deportation
- Resisting low pay and poor conditions
- Domestic work
- Sex workers
- Transport industry and immigration controls
- the regularisation debate

There will be a creche. Please let us know if you will be bringing children.

Venue:

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H,
Tube: Russell Square, buses: 7, 68, 169

Called by Finsbury Park RMT

Supported by Piccadilly & West RMT, Camden RMT, Central London GMB, UNITE-T&G 1647 Branch (Catering & Domestic Workers), Ilford & Romford UNITE-AMICUS, Clerkenwell & St. Pancras UNITE-AMICUS, Liverpool University UCU, Liverpool Trades Council, Brent Trades Council, Brighton & Hove Trades Council, Bolivian Solidarity Campaign, Ecuadorian Movement in the UK, No One is Illegal, Papers for All, London No Borders, Global Afrikan Congress UK, LTRC Black & Ethnic Members, Latin Front, Latin Community Association, Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP, No Sweat, Leicester Civil Rights Movement, Leicester Social Forum Haringey Trades Council, London Branch of the IWW, Chinese Immigration Concern Committee, Devon RMT, Dorset CPB, NUS Women's Conference + more

see website for links to these groups

Info:
tel: 07956 133 450 (English) or 07818 667 192 (Spanish)
Post: Immigration Conference, Dean O'Hanlon, RMT, Unity House, 39 Chalton Street, Euston, London NW1 1JD.

Conference organizing group
- e-mail: davidlandau9@aol.com
- Homepage: http://www.29thmarch.org.uk

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