Sometimes you have to be proactive too…

Anyway its a big injustice they way they were treated, and I flew with BA recently during the GG strike action and BA were affected pretty badly.

I am glad the workers took a stand and stood up for their rights shoulder to shoulder and had Heathrow and BA at its knees.

Power to the people and it shows that when theres something strange in your neighbourhood, who you gonna call….(more like what you gonna do), STRIKE ACTION!

peace

I always support strikes. But few strikes leave me as fiercely partisan as those in which Asian ladies figure strongly. There is something incredibly moving about these demure women finally moved to defiance — think of Mrs Desai leading the 1977 Grunwick strike. Sikh/Hindu ladies in their gorgeous saris, with their triumph of human spirit over humble beginnings and cultural oppression

Bringing in endless cheap labour from Eastern Europe would have the most disastrous effect on those nearest the bottom of the pay hierarchy, most of them immigrants from the former colonies. Whenever I trotted out my catchy slogan — Stop White Immigration Now! — I was accused of being a dirty racist, often by my friends and other people who should have known better.

And now we’ve seen the effect of white immigration; gentle, dignified, sari-clad women chased by armed policemen across a Heathrow car park because they had the nerve to protest against the sacking of 670 of their number — many of them by megaphone, many of them on three minutes’ notice — after the emergence of a secret document which detailed a cold-blooded management plan to replace them with dirt-cheap Eastern European labour.

Who’s the dirty racist now? Not me, for sure. But rather, those soft-hearted ninnies who, however good their intentions, think that ceaseless white immigration can continue without other people — british immigrants from our ex-colonies, people this country actually owe something to — suffering.

The government should follow steps taken by following in the lead of countries like germanyin limiting labour migration cross the eu or even blocking till possible impacts are analysed. Not just the influx of eastern europeans, but also the assimilation of Somali’s – which is another debate to be had.

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1947

it is a disgrace the way they have been treated, my mum being one of them. As well as GG the union has a lot to answer for too though

The 670 workers who were fired on Aug. 10 after going on strike and Gate Gourmet’s existing 1,400 employees were “offered two weeks’ pay for every year of service”. Pathetic.

About 300 of the applications came from staff fired last month, while a further 400 came from employees still working at Gate Gourmet, according to comments made by Tony Woodley, general secretary of the Transport & General Workers’ Union, at the Trades Union Congress conference in Brighton.