Workers in the UNITE union at Mitie (Willis)--who also organised around the living wage and who have been fighting off attacks on union organisation for some time, were today conned into a fake meeting on health and safety issues by their managers and raided. a number have been picked up and detained. protests will follow.. with one on friday at 12:30.. watch this space for more details...
other news: the RMT union have agreed to work with the SOAS unions to develop a "hands off my workmate" campaign and the teach in we plan
Showing posts with label Protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protest. Show all posts
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Protest outside Home Office on Tuesday, 5.30-6.30pm
Let them stay..
Our cleaners are not criminals!
Staff and students at SOAS are calling for Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for the Home Office, to grant leave to remain with permission to work for Marina Silva and Rosa dePerez, two of the SOAS cleaners picked up in a brutal immigration raid on 12thJune. Marina, who is 63 and has applied for asylum, following het brutal honour killing of her husband and threats to her own life, and Rosa, who has four children to support in Nicaragua, remain in detention following the raid. Their colleagues, including six months pregnant Luzia, were deported within 48 hours of the raid.
Cleaners at SOAS had demanded and organised for dignity at work with many joining a union. They had succeeded in winning union recognition from the privatised cleaning firm ISS and raising their pay to the London Living Wage—higher than other colleges in the area. It is of grave concern that the raid, organised by ISS, took place shortly after this campaign and on the very day on which UNISON was due to protest in support of an activist who had played a leading role in organising the cleaners at SOAS.
Please support our campaign:
Lobby the Home Office, Tuesday 30th June, 5.30-6.30pm
2 marsham st, millbank, Sw1
Sign the letter requesting leave to remain is granted to Marina and Rosa
http://freesoascleaners.
For more information go to: http://freesoascleaners.
Stop the Deportation of SOAS University Cleaners!
Supported by SOAS UNISON and UCU
Call to action in solidarity with detainees at Yarl's Wood detention centre:
* JUSTICE FOR THE SOAS 9
* VICTORY TO THE HUNGER STRIKERS!
Two weeks after nine cleaners at SOAS were taken into detention, take action for justice for the SOAS 9 and in solidarity with detainees in Yarls' Wood on hunger strike for demand including: freeing children who are detained, adequate access to health care, quality food and real privacy. Hundreds of people in Yarls Wood are being denied the medical care they need including a woman with epilepsy and a 5 months' pregnant woman in the families' section. Families have been on hunger strike for over a week now and we need to show them our support!
Forward this message widely>>>>>>
SAT 27 JUNE - DAY OF ACTION IN SUPPORT OF DETAINED MIGRANTS
Morning – Action to let the Yarl’s Wood detainees know that we stand with them in opposing the injustice of immigration controls, the imprisonment of innocent people and the denial of basic access to healthcare. Call 07952 254487 for more information.
1pm – March and speak out against cuts in ESOL Teaching
Meet Bethnal Green Gardens (Next to Bethnal Green Tube) for march with UCU (University and College Union) and Tower Hamlets College students and staff, over cuts in Jobs primarily in ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). March to Altab Ali Park, Whitechapel, for speakers and rally.
4.30 pm – Picket the Home Office's Communications House 210 Old Street, London, EC1V 9BR (1 minute from Old Street tube, 205 bus goes straight from Whitechapel)
Speak out and rally including speakers from migrant workers struggles and Yarl’s Wood.
The building looks anonymous but immigration reporting centres are places of fear for asylum seekers, who have to report to them monthly, weekly or even several times a week. They are places of detention and several SOAS Cleaners were held here on the day they were arrested.
TAKE ACTION NOW - Send messages of solidarity for the hunger strikers to:londoncoalitionaginstpoverty@
* Contact SERCO (who run Yarl’s Wood) and demand that the strikers’ demands are met - 01344 386300 -homeaffairs@serco.com
* Contact Yarl’s Wood and demand that the strikers demands are met: The duty manager01234 821517; The switchboard is 01234 821000; Health'care' 01234 821147
* Forward news about the SOAS 9 and the hunger strike as well as this call-out to any email lists you are on or press contacts you have
* Take action to demand exceptional leave to remain for the SOAS 9: http://freesoascleaners.
* If you can donate towards credit for detainees’ mobiles or travel costs for solidarity visits, emaillondoncoalitionagainstpoverty@
More information on SOAS 9: http://freesoascleaners.
A detainee involved in the hunger strike's story: http://londonmigrantworkers.
More information on the hunger strike: http://www.caic.org.uk/node/43
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Victory video and campaign mtg videos
Hanadi reading out the statement including demands won
Sally Hunt-Gen Sec UCU
Sandy Nicholl - SOAS UNISON
More can be found at Ady Cousins YouTube channell HERE
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Rally & campaign mtg this Friday - the campaign builds!
Meet for a rally called by UNISON at SOAS on Friday at 6pm!
Show SOAS management that attention hasn't been taken off them and stand witness on the site where 9 cleaners were take into detention and others forced to go underground a week previously.
After the rally there will be music and food to celebrate solidarity and resistance and carry on discussions about how to build the campaign!
On Saturday, join Campaign Against Immigration Controls at SOAS for a meeting to discuss how to build the wider campaign of migrant worker struggle and against immigration controls - 2pm-5pm, G50. Details here: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/432527.html
Show SOAS management that attention hasn't been taken off them and stand witness on the site where 9 cleaners were take into detention and others forced to go underground a week previously.
After the rally there will be music and food to celebrate solidarity and resistance and carry on discussions about how to build the campaign!
On Saturday, join Campaign Against Immigration Controls at SOAS for a meeting to discuss how to build the wider campaign of migrant worker struggle and against immigration controls - 2pm-5pm, G50. Details here: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/432527.html
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Rally Wednesday 12pm outside SOAS
Sign the e-petition HERE
Thousands more on paper petitions support this campaign and action.
Spirits are high and we are aware that this is a good start for a campaign that can achieve so much.
We have been up all night working on our demands so that they achieve what we all set out to do for the campaign.
We have had an excellent evening and has shown us what can be done when we all fight together.
URGENT CALL OUT for people to contact Home Office calling for exceptional leave to remain for all the SOAS 9 who want it - model letter COMING SOON - check back here!
Slavoj Zizek and others available to speak.
12pm
SOAS Steps
Bring banners and people and musical instrument.
Tomorrow is the last day of term. Wouldn't it be great to end the year with a clear demonstration that this fight is growing and will continue?
Hunger Strike in family unit at Yarl's Wood
A number of women in the family unit at Yarl's Wood have gone on hunger strike, I am hoping to get a collective statement from the later on as to why they are on hunger strike and what they want people on the outside to do.
Demonstration TODAY. Don't MESS with our cleaners
Assemble SOAS with mops, props and noise.
4.30pm.
Short rally followed by march arouond all the Bloomsbury colleges.
SPEAKER: Jeremy Corbyn MP and others
We have to give confidence back to the cleaners and other staff in the Bloomsbury group who are feeling under threat and intimidated.
This is also happening around the world. Here is what an activist has sent us from Australia.
"Hey I just wanted to let you know that you are definitely not alone. Here at Newcastle University we are currently battling our administration who are cutting the funding for our cleaning staff by 25%. Further to that, the rights of international workers and students in this country are constantly under threat. If a student fails too many courses they can be thrown into a detention centre, detention centres located in the most remote locations in our country.
Please keep fighting and if there's anything we can do to help please let us know."
For more detail please call 07958 034 181
Solidarity needed.
Monday, 15 June 2009
Emergency Rally called for 4.30pm
Speakers to be confirmed.
All media welcome
SOAS steps
4.30pm.
Many staff will also be there.
Sign the online petition at http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/28557.html
All media welcome
SOAS steps
4.30pm.
Many staff will also be there.
Sign the online petition at http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/28557.html
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