Comrades,
I've been following an industrial dispute that's been rumbling for some time now (years in fact) and I want to support the workers involved in it but I'd like some suggestions on what to do. I've spoken to workers individually and told them that I support them and stuff, but that doesn't really seem like enough to be doing, and I'd like some concrete suggestions on how to build links or move forward with solidarity on this. Do comrades with more experience in labour disputes have any suggestions? I have very little experience with industrial disputes and most of my organizing has been community based (my politics tend to be somewhat platformist).
The text of an email I sent out earlier should provide some background into what's actually going on:-
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Subject: [GAP] Subway Workers Strike
From: nick_durie@riseup.net
Date: Mon, January 31, 2005 9:41 am
To: [snipped for privacy reasons]
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Comrades,
Today subway workers are again on strike, not more than two weeks after their last strike. The strike includes ticket collectors
as well as drivers.
I send this information to comrades because many industrial disputes on
the west coast appear to have passed the movement by - for example the
body shop workers strike, where many comrades, such as myself, only read about the dispute after it had unfolded in the letters pages of freedom, coupled with comments from those who knew the dispute was going on, but told no-one, about how Glasgow anarchists need to do more to support organized workers.
It's not clear exactly what we can do about it as I'm not sure if the
strikers have pickets, but I think we shoulddo something.
Hopefully however folk know about this already, but this was just sent in
case comrades aren't aware of it.
Solidarity,
Nick Durie
--
Oh wad or I had seen the day
That treason thus could sell us
Ma auld grey heid had lien in clay
Wi Bruce and loyal Wallace.
Is it a series of one-day strikes then?
Are they T&G?