Good stuff 
I can help distribute around Merseyside, I'm sure other members of Merseyside AF would be happy to help as well.
Dispatch - distributing a public sector pay struggle bulletin - help needed
This is now done and up here:
http://libcom.org/library/dispatch-public-sector-pay-dispute-1-august-2007
Please could people get printing and handing out! If people are doing anywhere, please say so here.
Please can people forward this message asking for help onto whoever!
Quote:
Hello,
We are a group of workers mostly in the public sector, who met via the libcom.org website who are putting together a bulletin called Dispatch - Public sector pay dispute—information for action. An ad hoc newsletter for the ongoing struggles, mainly in the post office at present, against sub-inflation pay offers.Our main aims are - to try to keep workers informed, to help communication across different sectors, to help spread the struggle, to help workers fight more effectively, to help us win, and to record information about how the struggle progresses to pass on lessons to other workers in the future.
We want to get the bulletin out to as many people as possible, and we need your help. This first issue is aimed at postal workers. Future issues might be aimed at civil servants, local government workers, etc.
Our main targets for distribution this time will be big District Offices (DOs), which can have thousands of workers, but also if these have been done, secondary targets include picket lines, Sub-Delivery Offices (SDOs), post offices, post boxes, CWU demonstrations, then other public sector workers, and anyone else.
Depending on responses we can pay for some to be printed, but for now we're mostly planning on using DIY photocopies or printouts from PDF.
Are you or your organisation interested? If so, which area are you in? Can you or your group take responsibility for certain areas/offices? Do you have a newsletter? If so can you include the bulletin in your mailout?
We're trying to co-ordinate this mostly on the libcom forums: http://libcom.org/forums/organise/dispatch-distributing-public-sector-pay-struggle-bulletin-help-needed-05082007
So please feed back here. Alternatively you can email us at dispatch@libcom.orgWe can help to get details like DO addresses, and if you can't help distribute them libcom needs assistance with reporting the disputes online so if you have the time to help out do get in touch!
Please also forward this appeal to anyone or any websites/message boards where people may find it useful.
In solidarity,
The Dispatch crew
Devrim wrote:
guydebordisdead wrote:
Wow, this is exactly the kind of thing a site like libcom should be doing. Fair play.Actually, I think that it is the kind of thing that the UK anarchist organisations should have been doing.
Devrim
our solfed local discussed doing a leaflet, but as this was in the offing and we have no postie members we've done one aimed at the general public instead, which we're distro'ing saturday. though i do agree with the thrust of what you're saying, this is the most important struggle at the moment with already far more working class people taking direct action than against the war and as such it should merit the attention of class struggle militants. hopefully the UK anarchist organisations will help distro this, which is every bit as important as writing it if not more so.
We've got the "Help needed to distribute public sector workers pay struggles bulletin" email at edinburghsf (at) solfed.org.uk and and I'll print a stack of these off for the folks in the mail room where I work. I'll take prints to ACE and mention it at the Edinburgh Claimants meeting tomorrow night. Also, we have a flyposting session tomorrow night so we could do these as A3 wallposters. Its useful leaving batches of bulletins on buses (inside the 'metro', etc). I raise distributing copies with the Catalyst #17 which is due to go out soon and email our internal discussion list.
Jacque - that's great stuff, cheers!
ping and catch - that's great too. Mount Pleasant, will that be open Friday morning? Cos mail centres are striking thur-fri.
We could do a big one Thursday morning perhaps - is 4am shift start time? Could try to visit some picket lines on Friday.
John. wrote:
Jacque - that's great stuff, cheers!ping and catch - that's great too. Mount Pleasant, will that be open Friday morning? Cos mail centres are striking thur-fri.
We could do a big one Thursday morning perhaps - is 4am shift start time? Could try to visit some picket lines on Friday.
You will be there 4am Thu you guys? Dedication. 
Great work on this guys - awesome.. a lot of hard work and it shows - quality!
I don't have a working printer atm but if i can access one (prolly at my local beauty salon.. strange i know but they like me... ) I can print off some copies and take some down to my big ol postal depot in town and the main and sub post offices - don't wanna say what town on here cos it is a small one but John knows and has mocked it. 
Oh and JK has stayed here and also knows where i am..
Peeps who say libcom admin don't do shit don't know shit.
Love
LW XX
John. wrote:
is 4am shift start time?
this i have to check - i'm picking up something from the delivery office tonight so i'll ask about the strike and the shift time (one of solfed lives almost next door and has volunteered to do coffee or something for the pickets. don't think he knows it might be at the witching hour yet 
). i assume the same shift times nationally?
Joseph K. wrote:
John. wrote:
is 4am shift start time?this i have to check - i'm picking up something from the delivery office tonight so i'll ask about the strike and the shift time (one of solfed lives almost next door and has volunteered to do coffee or something for the pickets. don't think he knows it might be at the witching hour yet
Well you get up so bloody early JK .. shouldn't make much odds to you!
It is obscene that you are up before i have even had a chance to go to bed! 
John. wrote:
Jacque - that's great stuff, cheers!ping and catch - that's great too. Mount Pleasant, will that be open Friday morning? Cos mail centres are striking thur-fri.
We could do a big one Thursday morning perhaps - is 4am shift start time? Could try to visit some picket lines on Friday.
Joseph K. wrote:
John. wrote:
is 4am shift start time?this i have to check - i'm picking up something from the delivery office tonight so i'll ask about the strike and the shift time (one of solfed lives almost next door and has volunteered to do coffee or something for the pickets. don't think he knows it might be at the witching hour yet
Be careful with this, Joseph. I think that places outside London may have different start times than London, and big offices may have different times than delivery offices (at least they used to).
Good luck,
Devrim
Joseph K. wrote:
Devrim wrote:
guydebordisdead wrote:
Wow, this is exactly the kind of thing a site like libcom should be doing. Fair play.Actually, I think that it is the kind of thing that the UK anarchist organisations should have been doing.
Devrimour solfed local discussed doing a leaflet, but as this was in the offing and we have no postie members we've done one aimed at the general public instead, which we're distro'ing saturday. though i do agree with the thrust of what you're saying, this is the most important struggle at the moment with already far more working class people taking direct action than against the war and as such it should merit the attention of class struggle militants. hopefully the UK anarchist organisations will help distro this, which is every bit as important as writing it if not more so.
Joseph,
It is not having a go at you individually as I know that you were involved in producing this.
The point about the anarchist organisations is valid still.
Joseph K. wrote:
our solfed local discussed doing a leaflet, but as this was in the offing and we have no postie members we've done one aimed at the general public instead, which we're distro'ing saturday.
In my opinion it is something that needs a national leaflet, distrubuted by every branch. Also, the centralisation would allow you to poll knowledge, and experience. Also, I am sure you must have some postmen nationally.
Devrim
Dev, i agree the feds have been slow off the mark although on this thread alone there's very positive responses from the AF and SolFed about distroing it. i agree it would have been better if they'd written one them/ourselves rather than an ad hoc group forming for the purpose of it. i can't speak for the AF but i know solfed have done a leaflet on post office closures and south london and brighton at least are doing stuff on this. should we be more joined-up nationally? around national stuff like this certainly, hopefully distro'ing dispatch will be a (ahem) catalyst for this. not taking it personally at all, just pointing out there hasn't been a total lack of activity on this, even if it's been less than it should be.
cheers for the heads-up on shift times - i'll find out brighton info but londoners had better find out their own - perhaps phone up as 'media' wondering when the shift starts? or just ask straight?
Hi. May be able to help with distro. Not sure about 4am, very busy at the mo. Have PMed John. about being able to do printing in case it helps - inc. my e-mail and phone number. Based in East London, nearest office to me is the one at the junction of Cavell St. and Whitechapel High St. If you can't find stuff out about shift times locally any other way, let me know and I will see what I can do. Drop me an e-mail or something.
A postie tells me that shift times in London at his office are 6am-2pm, 2pm-10pm... and are prob. the same elsewhere in London. But may be best to check by asking on royalmailchat... Also, Mount Pleasant is biggest office in London so will likely have multiple functions. But again, check it out.
RIght we distrod at Mount Pleasant this morning, went pretty well actually. I was a bit nervous, it seemed a bit like something people did in the 70s but don't do any more, but it was fine, quite fun, everyone was friendly, 80-90% took one, we had a long chat with one guy, and another guy who walked randomly past who used to be a miner.
We also went to a nearby caff frequented by lots of posties and they let us leave a hundred in there for people to take.
There were 5 of us, which was too many - you only need 2, maybe would be good to arrange 3 in case someone drops out, but 2 would be fine.
We want to distro at big DOs again tomorrow between 5 and 7pm. There's a shift change at 5.30, and the strike starts at 7 so we think maybe lots of people will leave at once - and of course the importance of the strikes will be clear then.
Can anyone help do London DOs tomorrow?
Anyone done any outside london yet? some postal workers from royalmailchat have run off a bunch of these to hand out, and put them up on noticeboards, etc. which is good!
Right, as some of you will have seen, us and some friends have been putting together an ad hoc bulletin - see here http://libcom.org/library/dispatch-public-sector-pay-dispute-1-august-2007 - for the ongoing pay struggles http://libcom.org/pay-2007
we will need lots of help distributing this. this issue is aimed at postal workers.
Our main targets for distribution will be big DOs, which can have thousands of workers, but also if these have been done, people giving them out on picket lines, SDOs, post offices, putting a couple in post boxes, demonstrations, etc. would all be good as well.
depending on responses we can pay for some to be printed, but we're thinking mostly DIY photocopying for now.
So, who can help out, and what area are you in? can any organisations take responsibilities for certain areas/offices (Organise! norn iron for example?)
for comments/contributions to the bulletin itself please see this thread: http://libcom.org/forums/organise/dispatch-public-sector-pay-dispute-bulletin-thread-03082007