Fight for British Jobs: Nationwide Protest This Saturday!

Luke Blackburn | 13.07.2006 17:11 | Workers' Movements

Car maker PEUGEOT have sacked 2000 workers, and are planning on uprooting their production plant to Eastern Europe, so that they can pay workers far less money and make them work in appalling health and safety conditions.

This Saturday there will be a nationwide protest against the company at Peugeot Garages and Centres accross the country, led by the T&G and Amicus Trade Unions. Come along to fight for British Workers and British Jobs.

No matter what your opinions on the car industry may be, it is important to let these multi-national firms know that it is not OK to sack people willy nilly and make other workers do the same job for far worse money and in far worse conditions.

Date: Saturday 15th July 2006
Time: 9am-12 noon

Venues nearby:

LEEDS: MSF, Roseville Road, Leeds, LS8 5QP
BRADFORD: JCT600 Peugeot Centre, Sticker Lane, Bradford, BD4 8RT
KEIGHLEY: Sunwin Motors, Worth Way, Keighley, BD21 5A

For Further Information Contact Mark Fieldhosue on: Work-0113 2436687 or Mobile-07817 103893

Rick and I will be going down to the Leeds protest, so get in touch if you want a lift.

More internet info:

http://www.amicustheunion.org/pdf/Peugeotflyer.pdf

http://www.amicustheunion.org/Default.aspx?page=4208

Luke Blackburn

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British Jobs? British Workers?

13.07.2006 22:22

I found the post above suspect. I support workers struggles including those workers that face unemployment and poverty like I have had to endure but what does the author mean by "British workers and British Jobs" ? Sounds nationalist to me. There are alot of people in the UK that weren't born here but are nonetheless part of an international class of workers/producers who are exploited by capital, there should not be any imposition of an imaginary community like "British". Any attempts to give active solidarity to these 2,000 workers should be on class lines or nothing.

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Why "No matter what your opinions on the car industry"?

15.07.2006 13:26

50 - 60 deaths a week in the UK (mostly children) - Global climate chaos - Dramatic rise in as asthma and other respiratory conditions coinciding with the rise of car culture - Middle classes obsession with wanker wagons (SUVs) - Need for oil and therefore war - The commodification of the idea of 'freedom' and the blatant sexism in car advertising campaigns - Armegeddon for hedgehogs (along with every other species of course) - Traffic jams where the countryside used to be - Huge waste problems - Thierry Henry saying "Va va voom"
The list is endless.
We should no more lament job losses in the car industry as we would in the arms industry. The automobile symbolises everything that is wrong with globalised consumer capitalism, so if you do have a job in the car industry (British or otherwise) do yourself a favour and quit before it’s too late.

Ishmeal Bush