Pledge “Hardship-Fund”
"I will donate £5 to the Gate Gourmet Workers Hardship Fund but only if 600 other people will do the same."
— Maggie Bremner, Trade Unionist (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 31st August 2005
80 people signed up, 520 more were needed
Country: United Kingdom
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The chaos at Heathrow may be over just now, but the outrage that caused it is still ongoing. 500 workers at Gate Gourmet remain sacked after facing disgusting treatment at the hands of bosses who were exposed in the media as having deliberately engineered the chaos in order to cheaply rid themselves of the workers.
These workers are still on picket lines and desperately need financial aid to keep them going. Their fight affects all of us as Gate Gourmets tactics of deliberately provoking a workforce to walk out can be copied by any company who wishes to get rid of their workforce and exploit cheaper labour. We have to support these people and help them win.
Please promise to donate £5 to the hardship fund and pass this on to as many people as you can think of and please do it as quickly as possible. We need to show bosses that they can't get away with this and that we can effectively organise to support and help our own for as long as it takes.
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Maggie Bremner, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Rachael Webb
- Steve Leniec
- stan crooke
- sally keegan
- Julia Brandreth
- Maurice Regan
- Nick Dearden
- Martin Furlong
- Colin Inniss
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- Ben Monks
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- Mark Savage
- Richard Hindes
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- Stuart Hodkinson
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- nick lidgett
- Debby Hallett
- Kevin Blowe
- Karen Amas
- Gemma Sayers
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- Lydia Hayes
- Mick Pollek
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- Julia Long
- Julie Hilling
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Their courage and commitment is terrific, and they appear to have a network of solidarity that is not dependent on demoralised union structures.
They could act as an inspiration to the entire movement.
Let's pull out every stop. I pledge £10 a week and will seek to get as many members of my union NATFHE to do likewise.
Looks to me the the first shot in rolling back the casualisation trend.
Who knows, we might even get solidarity strikes accepted like the rest of the world's got!!