Equal Pay, Equal Conditions, Equal Rights
Posted on February 3, 2010
GMB has organised a demonstration in London today.
GMB London Demonstrations On Feb 3rd At Underpayment Of Overseas Workers On Staythorphe And Engineering Construction Sites Being Used To Undercut UK Workers
Unemployed workers to demonstrate and deliver proof uncovered at Staythorpe at offices of Alstom, ECIA and Lord Mandelson and Rally to demand end to employers lies about underpayment and exploitation in Engineering Construction
The full press release contains more information.
It appears that the GMB has called the demonstration against employers’ lies about underpayment and exploitation, but the Daily Star has a different version of events, claiming the demonstration is continuation of the British Jobs For British Workers nationalist campaign, a
dispute over migrants which the Daily Star helped win for Brit workers [...] Protesters claim [...] their livelihoods [...] destroyed by mass immigration. [...] GMB union is also backing the march, which is the brainchild of the Bearfacts campaign group
While GMB officials have stated privately that they are opposed to the anti-migrant sentiments put forward in the Daily Star, there has as yet been no public statement from GMB restating the aims of the demonstration and making explicit its opposition.
Last year, Unite General Secretary Derek Simpson, an odious simpleton who has his tongue firmly wedged up the arses of the bosses, was photographed by the Daily Star with two chesty lasses holding British Jobs For British Workers banners complete with Union Flags.
‘Identity’ politics, a bourgeois fiction which pretends that workers and their exploiters have the same interests, has been substituted for class politics in the British Jobs For British Workers campaign. ‘Identity’ is used by the bosses to destroy class solidarity and weaken the proletariat. While workers remain divided and fight one another we are not fighting our real enemy — the bosses who profit from and grow fat on our labour. We must fight for equality, fight for the same pay and conditions for workers of all nationalities here and between workers in different countries.
Workers of the World Unite! Equal Pay, Equal Conditions, Equal Rights
