Electrians Protest Report 14/03/12 - Taking on the Agencies

This morning electricians and supporters gathered outside the entrance of the Shard site. The Rank and File Committee deciding to try and keep the momentum of previous months and take the fight to the agencies, (targeting big companies like Mace in particular) who rob workers pay packets week in week out. Agency workers on sites are often ununionised, work far longer shifts and have far less access to proper training than those in direct employment.

International Week of Action Against Ryanair: leafleting in Liverpool

John Foley of the Ryanair Don't Care campaign joined members of Solidarity Federation and the Anarchist Federation in Liverpool City Centre yesterday to hand out leaflets. John addressed the public by megaphone, describing the recruitment and employment practices of Ryanair as around 500 leaflets were distributed.

After the distribution, John provided Liverpool Solfed with an interview outside News From Nowhere bookshop - which has a Ryanair Don't care display in its front window - about what was in store. On Friday, there will be a picket of the Allied Irish Bank and Daniel Silverman Solicitors.

Ryanair Don't Care: week of international action

The Ryanair Don’t Care Campaign, supported by the Solidarity Federation in the UK and the IWA internationally, is calling for a Week of International Action against exploitation and recruitment scamming by Ryanair, starting on March 12.

Ryanair Don’t Care was started by John Foley after his daughter was sacked as a flight attendant mid-flight and abandoned abroad without any money. This led to the exposure of a cynical and highly exploitative recruitment scam by Ryanair.

Stop the North West Infidels - Bolton

start: 
Sat, 24/03/2012 - 10:00

Location

Bolton
United Kingdom
See map: Google Maps
Event organiser: 
Liverpool Antifascists
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The North West Infidels (NWI), a splinter group from the English Defence League, are holding a demonstration in Bolton on Saturday 24 March. Liverpool Antifascists is calling on all anti-fascists, anti-racists and organised workers to mobilise in opposition to the presence of these fascists on our streets.

local, network, collective: 
Liverpool
Access Layer: 
Public
URL: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/377277172291919/

Legal Observer Training - Liverpool

start: 
Sat, 17/03/2012 - 12:00 to 18:00

Location

The Caledonia
2 Catharine Street
L7 7DX Liverpool
United Kingdom
53° 23' 56.5368" N, 2° 58' 6.366" W
See map: Google Maps
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GBC trainers from London are kindly coming to Liverpool:
Have you ever been at a demo, near a line of police, and witnessed the police do something you're pretty sure they're not supposed to do? Baton someone, for instance, or stop and search a nearby protester, or snatch somebody out of the crowd? Ever wondered how you can: a) know what to do, and b) how you can help them?

Now is your chance to find out.

local, network, collective: 
Liverpool
Access Layer: 
Public

International week of action against Ryanair - picket at Liverpool John Lennon Airport

start: 
Sat, 17/03/2012 - 11:00

Location

Liverpool John Lennon Airport L24 1YD
United Kingdom
53° 20' 14.3124" N, 2° 51' 17.7372" W
See map: Google Maps
Event organiser: 
Ryanair Don't Care Campaign / Liverpool Solidarity Federation
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The Ryanair Don't Care campaign is calling for a week of action against exploitation and recruitment-scamming by Ryanair starting on March 12th 2012.

In particular, the campaign is asking for actions (pickets, occupations, leafletting etc) to take place on March 15th, which is the day of the Ryanair Chase at Cheltenham Races, where actions are planned.

The campaign will also be calling on the public to boycott the airline for the duration of the week of action.

local, network, collective: 
Liverpool
Access Layer: 
Public
URL: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/253208988096113/

International week of action against Ryanair - demand letters

As we begin the week of action against Ryanair, we hope that people across the world are writing, faxing, emailing and making phone calls in protest at the airline's exploitative recruitment practices.

Attached are pro-forma demand letters to send to Ryanair and other key targets, which can be adapted as needed. Don't forget to include your name and/or the name of your organisation, along with contact details and let us know of any reply you receive.

In the order that the letters appear in the attachment, here are the contact details for the targets:

Ryanair

Ryanair Corporate Head Office
Dublin Airport
Co Dublin
Ireland
Phone: +353 1 812 1212
Fax: +353 1 812 1676
Email: http://frd.ie/complaints/?language=en