cormacobear
30th June 2005, 18:39
I'm starting a new thread for these so I can better keep track of how many people are reading these. So here goes. :D
Source: LabourStart e-newsletter
UNION-FRIENDLY IN EUROPE -- UNION BUSTER IN THE US
This story certainly has a familiar ring to it. Three months ago we wrote to tell you about a German company which while it embraced unions at home refused to talk to unions representing its British employees. A British union was asking for our help to put pressure on that company, which hypocritically pretends to be union-friendly -- but busts unions where it can get away with it.
Now we've got a sense of deja vu all over again.
The British-based FirstGroup, a bus and rail giant, boasts of how friendly it is towards unions in its home country, the United Kingdom. But its US operations are engaged in union-busting. For example, its US subsidiary, First Student, states in its national employee handbook that it desires to be "union-free" and will aggressively fight all union organizing among its employees.
Unions in the USA and Britain (the SEIU and the T&G) have launched a campaign called "Driving Up Standards" to bring an end to this company's double standard. Workers have the right to join and form unions everywhere. Companies cannot welcome unions in one country while attempting to crush them in another.
Those unions are calling on all workers in the USA, Britain and around the globe to send a loud and clear message to the heads of FirstGroup. I urge all of you to click on the link below and send off your message of protest today:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/FirstGroup1
Please make sure to pass this message on to every union member you know. Thanks.
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HOTEL UNION LEADER BEATEN BY SECURITY GUARDS - CALL FOR URGENT PROTEST
Haji Gul Hassan, president of the Quetta Serena Hotel Workers Union, has been dismissed from employment at the Serena Hotel in Quetta (Pakistan). When he tried to approach the hotel gate to deliver a grievance notice, he was beaten by security guards while management staff looked on. When co-workers staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the hotel to protest the unfair dismissal, management called the police to haul them off to jail. Tell the hotel management and the owner of the Serena Hotel Group, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, that such acts of intimidation and aggression represent clear violations of basic human rights, especially those laid down in the international labour conventions of the ILO:
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=74
Source: LabourStart e-newsletter
UNION-FRIENDLY IN EUROPE -- UNION BUSTER IN THE US
This story certainly has a familiar ring to it. Three months ago we wrote to tell you about a German company which while it embraced unions at home refused to talk to unions representing its British employees. A British union was asking for our help to put pressure on that company, which hypocritically pretends to be union-friendly -- but busts unions where it can get away with it.
Now we've got a sense of deja vu all over again.
The British-based FirstGroup, a bus and rail giant, boasts of how friendly it is towards unions in its home country, the United Kingdom. But its US operations are engaged in union-busting. For example, its US subsidiary, First Student, states in its national employee handbook that it desires to be "union-free" and will aggressively fight all union organizing among its employees.
Unions in the USA and Britain (the SEIU and the T&G) have launched a campaign called "Driving Up Standards" to bring an end to this company's double standard. Workers have the right to join and form unions everywhere. Companies cannot welcome unions in one country while attempting to crush them in another.
Those unions are calling on all workers in the USA, Britain and around the globe to send a loud and clear message to the heads of FirstGroup. I urge all of you to click on the link below and send off your message of protest today:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/FirstGroup1
Please make sure to pass this message on to every union member you know. Thanks.
***
HOTEL UNION LEADER BEATEN BY SECURITY GUARDS - CALL FOR URGENT PROTEST
Haji Gul Hassan, president of the Quetta Serena Hotel Workers Union, has been dismissed from employment at the Serena Hotel in Quetta (Pakistan). When he tried to approach the hotel gate to deliver a grievance notice, he was beaten by security guards while management staff looked on. When co-workers staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the hotel to protest the unfair dismissal, management called the police to haul them off to jail. Tell the hotel management and the owner of the Serena Hotel Group, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, that such acts of intimidation and aggression represent clear violations of basic human rights, especially those laid down in the international labour conventions of the ILO:
http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/campaigns/show_campaign.cgi?c=74