Support sacked London cleaner activist this Friday
alt media | 02.07.2009 11:27 | Migration | Workers' Movements
Join the picket this Friday in Canary Wharf in solidarity with vicitmised cleaners campaigner Alberto Durango and against the use of immigration status to attack workers organising.
Alberto is a cleaners branch activist in Unite sacked from Schroders Bank by Lancaster cleaning company after a successful campaign against redundancies and for the living wage. He was entrapped by the company and UKBA at company offices, leading to his arrest and subsequent dismissal. One of the charges for gross misconduct was telling the press what had happened to him.
Alberto’s appeal will be heard on Friday at 11:00.
Come along show your solidarity in protest at this victimisation of a leading trade union activist:
Lancaster Docklands Office
31 Beaufort Court, Admirals Way
London, E14 9XL
Meet 10.30am outside Canary Wharf UNDERGROUND exit
John McDonnell MP says:
I know how hard Alberto has worked in the campaign to secure a living wage and decent working conditions for his fellow workers. I pay tribute to his tenacity and courage in this campaign. Alberto has stood firm in his determined fight for justice for low paid workers and it is important that we now stand firmly behind him.
You have my wholehearted support.
Yours,
John McDonnell MP
Professor Gregor Gall says:
'Unfortunately, Alberto's sacking represents one incident in a growing toll of incidents where union lay officers and activists are sacked, suspended or disciplined by their employers in recent years for various so-called offences which amount to standing up to management on behalf of themselves and their fellow workers. The cases where such victimisation has been rescinded or withdrawn invariably involve robust action from the individual's union and co-workers. I wish Alberto all the best in being able to make this so in his own case.'
Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations,
University of Hertfordshire,
Supported by: Justice for Cleaners @ Schroeders Bank, Latin American Workers Association, National Shop Stewards Network, Clerkenwell & St Pancras Unite branch, MPs John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn and more.
Photo: Alberto (red t-shirt) supporting Willis cleaners sacked by Mitie as they handed in a petition asking for their union Unite's official backing for their five month old protests. (May 2009)
Alberto’s appeal will be heard on Friday at 11:00.
Come along show your solidarity in protest at this victimisation of a leading trade union activist:
Lancaster Docklands Office
31 Beaufort Court, Admirals Way
London, E14 9XL
Meet 10.30am outside Canary Wharf UNDERGROUND exit
John McDonnell MP says:
I know how hard Alberto has worked in the campaign to secure a living wage and decent working conditions for his fellow workers. I pay tribute to his tenacity and courage in this campaign. Alberto has stood firm in his determined fight for justice for low paid workers and it is important that we now stand firmly behind him.
You have my wholehearted support.
Yours,
John McDonnell MP
Professor Gregor Gall says:
'Unfortunately, Alberto's sacking represents one incident in a growing toll of incidents where union lay officers and activists are sacked, suspended or disciplined by their employers in recent years for various so-called offences which amount to standing up to management on behalf of themselves and their fellow workers. The cases where such victimisation has been rescinded or withdrawn invariably involve robust action from the individual's union and co-workers. I wish Alberto all the best in being able to make this so in his own case.'
Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations,
University of Hertfordshire,
Supported by: Justice for Cleaners @ Schroeders Bank, Latin American Workers Association, National Shop Stewards Network, Clerkenwell & St Pancras Unite branch, MPs John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn and more.
Photo: Alberto (red t-shirt) supporting Willis cleaners sacked by Mitie as they handed in a petition asking for their union Unite's official backing for their five month old protests. (May 2009)
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