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Support Ford Visteon workers – visit Visteon Enfield
And information and advice sheet about visiting and how to support the picket of Enfield Ford Visteon workers.
Visteon workers in Enfield are picketing their factory around the clock to prevent the removal of machinery from the plant. They need support – donations, messages, solidarity actions, and your physical presence on occasions!
Violence in the name of respectability: raids on activist spaces during the G20 summit
Reflections on the police raids on Rampart Social Centre and the Convergence Space during the G20 Summit.
On the Thursday following the G20 protests, two squatted social centres in East London were raided by riot police, apparently looking for instigators of the attacks on the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Support the Visteon occupation - what you can do
A list of ways you can get involved in helping with the occupation by sacked Visteon workers.
Visit
Visit the factory and demonstrate your support and keep morale high. People are welcome at any time, 12 noon is a good time to go.
It is located at Morson Road EN3 4NQ near Ponders End train station, Enfield
Support
Send messages of support to visteonoccupation@gmail.com.
Donate
Support the Ford Visteon workers' occupation - leaflet
Leaflet of workers occupying the Ford Visteon factory in Enfield, north London. A ready-to-print copy is attached at the bottom.
We have occupied our factory Ford Visteon workers have occupied our factory since Wednesday 1st April. The previous day in a meeting lasting just 6 minutes we were told that the European company, with plants in Belfast, Basildon and Ponders End, Enfield, was going into administration and that we were to leave - without our wages being paid.
Morning Star journalists win pay rise
Journalists at Britain's 'daily paper of the left' have won a decisive victory over bosses who claimed they were 'betraying their class' by fighting for fair pay.
The sub-editors and reporters at the historic newspaper, which has a solid reputation backing workers fighting back, won their claim for a £19,000 a year minimum wage.
Bosses at the paper had offered the workers just a 3 per cent rise for the 2008 pay deal — effectively a pay cut as last year's average inflation rate was 4 per cent — claiming that there was no cash to pay more.
East London teachers to strike over unfair dismissal
Dozens of teachers are to stage a series of one-day strikes in support of a colleague who was sacked for wearing trainers and tracksuit bottoms to school.
Staff from St Paul’s Way Community School in Tower Hamlets, east London, are planning five walk-outs beginning next week in protest at the dismissal of Adrian Swain.
1990: Accounts of the poll tax riot
An interesting series of personal recollections of individuals participation and experiences of the poll tax riot in London's Trafalgar Square in 1990, which marked the beginning of the end of the Thatcher government.
1. I BOOKED A BABYSITTER
Learning from experience: To win is to fight to the end
This is a short interview looking at the experience of a migrant worker who has become a labour activist, and was involved in the successful self-organised strike by the Schroders cleaners in October 2008.
Alberto has been working as a cleaner in London and fighting for better wages and conditions for over 10 years.
Like many from the immigrant community, he came to the UK to study and to look for a better life. Soon after his studies, he fell into the ranks of many immigrants doing low paid work.
1891: London bus workers' strike
A history of the first strike by London transport workers in 1891, which was over pay and conditions and largely successful. The article also contains some information about developments in bus workers' unions around the same period.
The first person to try and organise the London tram and bus workers into a union, was a young barrister called Thomas Sutherst.
He managed, with considerable help from the London Trades Council to organise between two and three thousand tram workers, into The London County Tramway & Omnibus Employees union founded in 1889.
Morning Star journalists ballot for strike action
Morning Star journalists could be walking off the job next month in the first ever pay strike at Britain’s “daily paper of the left.”
Sub-editors and reporters at the Morning Star are balloting for industrial action after bosses at the newspaper tore up a commitment to try to close the pay gap with other national journalists, despite receiving hundreds of thousands of pounds in new investment.
