Post by Mitch on Mar 27, 2007 8:59:41 GMT
libcom.org/forums/news/airbus-wildcat-north-wales
The BBC sources news from contacts in it's local radio stations (I realised that during the recent Karim Family Campaign) - and local BBC radio usually sources from local newspapers.
So, my first thoughts when I read this above thread on Libcom were check local Flint & Flintshire Papers for more informative news:
see here in the Flintshire Standard:
www.flintshirestandard.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2179051&SectionID=5263
From this article - there's more info on just how sharp workers at Broughton were - walking out just before a visit by dork brain ex leader of the Liberal Party - Charles Kennedy (you can get a good idea on just how much the Liberal Party cares about workers on low wages and in unstable employment from his comments in the article
)
What you also get from this article that you don't get from the BBC opportunist drabs are the fact that Airbus are obviously employing the tactic of outsourcing, combined with layoffs, across all their companies worldwide - here at Broughton 600 workers have recently been layed off, with 300 planned for outsourcing.
Here comes the link with casual work - where will the temp workers come from?
Potentially from here - www.euroresources.co.uk
although I'm guessing, but this sits in a context of an influx of Polish workers to North Wales, particularly around Wrexham and Flintshire - see the 'debate' here
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/wrexham_town/pages/polish.shtml
This wider context in Flint is the same as Burnley & Nelson.
The tactic of sourcing workers direct for Eastern Europe, particularly Poland, is becoming pretty sophisticated now - with tempting agencies emerging specifically doing this like this one:
www.euroresources.co.uk/
But there are many more, some of them have been set up by Polish Professional workers (there was something in Saturday just gone Guardian Money section), but this temp agency is another example:
www.resolveltd.co.uk/
Fighting this is gonna need some new ideas - as it's a tactic by companies that pits worker against worker on a global scale.
Workers on full time contracts have to come together with casual and outsourced workers in the realisation that the poorer standards of contract, pay, unstable employment all the rest are coming their way soon. Unions like Amicus have no strategy on this - potentially it leaves the door open to the BNP and their new fascist union Solidarity.
Polish translated leaflets will be needed at Broughton - the crux of really attacking what's going on is the coming together of casual, outsources and full time employees - there were signs of that at Gate Gourmet until the mixed bag of union officials, local MPs & Councillors and other stragglers like the SWP dumbed the challenge of workers there.
An analysis of Airbus' tactics in outsourcing is needed, and then should be exposed. A targetting of leafletting temping agencies sourcing workers is another idea, and the goal is for casual/outsourced workers to be fighting alongside full time employees at plants.
Anarco-syndicalists would do well to dig around on the facts behind these wildcat walkouts, and just why Amicus was against the workers at Broughton.
The fascists are already lurking:
www.flintshirestandard.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=5263&articleid=2120797
news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/wales/north_east/5307424.stm
The same dangers are here in Nelson.
The BBC sources news from contacts in it's local radio stations (I realised that during the recent Karim Family Campaign) - and local BBC radio usually sources from local newspapers.
So, my first thoughts when I read this above thread on Libcom were check local Flint & Flintshire Papers for more informative news:
see here in the Flintshire Standard:
www.flintshirestandard.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2179051&SectionID=5263
From this article - there's more info on just how sharp workers at Broughton were - walking out just before a visit by dork brain ex leader of the Liberal Party - Charles Kennedy (you can get a good idea on just how much the Liberal Party cares about workers on low wages and in unstable employment from his comments in the article
)What you also get from this article that you don't get from the BBC opportunist drabs are the fact that Airbus are obviously employing the tactic of outsourcing, combined with layoffs, across all their companies worldwide - here at Broughton 600 workers have recently been layed off, with 300 planned for outsourcing.
Here comes the link with casual work - where will the temp workers come from?
Potentially from here - www.euroresources.co.uk
although I'm guessing, but this sits in a context of an influx of Polish workers to North Wales, particularly around Wrexham and Flintshire - see the 'debate'
herewww.bbc.co.uk/wales/northeast/sites/wrexham_town/pages/polish.shtml
This wider context in Flint is the same as Burnley & Nelson.
The tactic of sourcing workers direct for Eastern Europe, particularly Poland, is becoming pretty sophisticated now - with tempting agencies emerging specifically doing this like this one:
www.euroresources.co.uk/
But there are many more, some of them have been set up by Polish Professional workers (there was something in Saturday just gone Guardian Money section), but this temp agency is another example:
www.resolveltd.co.uk/
Fighting this is gonna need some new ideas - as it's a tactic by companies that pits worker against worker on a global scale.
Workers on full time contracts have to come together with casual and outsourced workers in the realisation that the poorer standards of contract, pay, unstable employment all the rest are coming their way soon. Unions like Amicus have no strategy on this - potentially it leaves the door open to the BNP and their new fascist union Solidarity.
Polish translated leaflets will be needed at Broughton - the crux of really attacking what's going on is the coming together of casual, outsources and full time employees - there were signs of that at Gate Gourmet until the mixed bag of union officials, local MPs & Councillors and other stragglers like the SWP dumbed the challenge of workers there.
An analysis of Airbus' tactics in outsourcing is needed, and then should be exposed. A targetting of leafletting temping agencies sourcing workers is another idea, and the goal is for casual/outsourced workers to be fighting alongside full time employees at plants.
Anarco-syndicalists would do well to dig around on the facts behind these wildcat walkouts, and just why Amicus was against the workers at Broughton.
The fascists are already lurking:
www.flintshirestandard.co.uk/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=5263&articleid=2120797
news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/wales/north_east/5307424.stm
The same dangers are here in Nelson.
