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END THE LOCK-OUT NOW!
SOLIDARITY STRIKE ACTION NEEDED TO DEFEND THE BLUE
BOOK AGREEMENT
In
talks with the trade union
officials, Redhalls made an offer of a financial pay-off which was put
to a mass meeting on Monday 21st March. Four hundred locked-out
Redhalls workers unanimously rejected this pay-off of up to �3,000
each. It was not seen as satisfactory in compensating for loss of
earnings and severence. Crucially, it does not ensure any TUPE rights
or future employment on this contract.
The dispute will now be escalated
and the mass meeting agreed to call for national strike action
throughout the industry to begin on Tuesday March 22nd in solidarity
with these workers and to defend the national agreement. We are also
calling for a national mobilisation for a demonstration at BP Saltend
next Monday March 28th.
This
lock-out represents a tearing up of the NAECI agreement and if not
resisted, will give the green light to other employers to do the same
on other sites and jobs. Then the Blue Book would be a worthless bit
of paper. Therefore our fight is for every construction worker in the
country.
Solidarity
strike action defeated the employers at LOR in 2009, we can achieve
that again!
For
further background on the dispute, see
here.
Keith Gibson, Lock-Out
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