Gate Gourmet workers situation?

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JDMF

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Feb 7 2006 16:14

Saw this on an email list:

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Posted on Indymedia UK:

Gate Gourmet latest betrayal

madmink | 05.02.2006 15:58 | Workers' Movements | London

T&G boss Woodley says dispute over and ends hardship[ payments- but it isn't

Yet again the T&G have stabbed the Gate Gourmet workers in the back, this

time by cutting off their (pitiful) hardship fund payments. First they

effectively imposed a sell-out agreement on the "strikers" that included

certainly 144 compulsory redundancies and cuts in wages. Many did not sign

the agreement and are still holding out. Now Woodley is trying to force them

to "fuck off and die" by cutting off their Union hardship payments. Of

course they can't claim benefits while they keep fighting. So "starving into

submission" is the reality, not jargon.

Last Thursday they picketed Transport House to demand the reinstatement of

the hardship payment and that the Union start fighting for them. I'm

suggesting everyone should start emailing and phoning Transport House to

support their demands.

http://www.sackedbygategourmet.org.uk/ seems to be down.

Any info anyone?

Mike Harman

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Feb 7 2006 17:01

Apparently the WRP is "leading" the struggle at the moment.

No real news I've seen though, but the latest prol-position newsletter has some stuff about blockades in Germany.

baboon

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Feb 7 2006 17:43

Once again strikes that end in union "victory" means defeat for the workers. Union "solidarity" once again turns out to be isolation from the workers. In BA, workers who were involved in the wildcat and support for the Gate Gourmet workers have been disciplined (I think sacked) with the connivance of the unions.

How many times do we have to have the unions carve us up and lead us to defeat to conclude that the unions are no longer organisations of the workers but are, and have been for decades, integrated into the capitalist state as a weapon against the working class.

There's no "victory" here for the Gate Gourmet workers, but a union victory in its work of sabotaging the struggle of the working class. No wonder the trotskyists support the unions.

Lazy Riser

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Feb 7 2006 18:17

Baboon. Please desist from doing posts that I agree with.

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JDMF

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Feb 7 2006 20:14

baboon wrote:

Once again strikes that end in union "victory" means defeat for the workers. Union "solidarity" once again turns out to be isolation from the workers. In BA, workers who were involved in the wildcat and support for the Gate Gourmet workers have been disciplined (I think sacked) with the connivance of the unions.
How many times do we have to have the unions carve us up and lead us to defeat to conclude that the unions are no longer organisations of the workers but are, and have been for decades, integrated into the capitalist state as a weapon against the working class.

There's no "victory" here for the Gate Gourmet workers, but a union victory in its work of sabotaging the struggle of the working class. No wonder the trotskyists support the unions.

well, now is your chance - perhaps we should organise solidarity pickets outside T&G offices up and down the country