We intend to raise money to provide direct practical help to homeless people in Bournemouth this winter. Clothing, rucksacks, sleeping bags, female sanitation, such essentials as they may request
No charities, no mailshots, no directors with six figure salaries, comfy chairs, lunch accounts or company cars.
Four great local punk bands and reggae D.J. are doing what they do for free. Entry by donation.
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Owing to the extraordinary mendacity and corrupt behaviour of the trustees of Portfield Community Hall we won’t be going back there.
We’re looking for a suitable venue in Dorset with good public transport, disabled access, and ideally room for the afterparty at the same location, as it will be the same handful of people setting up both events.
Please let us know if you’ve got any ideas. We’re looking at Dorchester, whi is served by rail but not so easy by road (and the bus service is pitiful) so we’d appreciate people’s views before we make plans.
The Transnational Social Strike site has just posted up a report and analysis of the weekend’s wildcat strike by Brighton Deliveroo riders. The same author also wrote a piece looking at how Deliveroo struggles have spread across Europe, which I’d not seen until now. As previously mentioned, you can help people in your town and city make contact with these struggles by printing or ordering a few copies of the Rebel Roo bulletin and passing them to Deliveroo riders on your way home.
“On Saturday night, over fifty Deliveroo workers in Brighton stopped work. The wildcat strike was organised through rank and file networks and led by migrant workers. They are demanding stable, decent wages – and using new tactics to increase their leverage. ‘We have to fight or else they f** us’, one striking rider said. ‘There is no other option’.
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A few updates on various different workplace disputes:
The wildcat bug seems to spreading among Deliveroo riders, at least in the South, as riders in Brighton went out on a wildcat strike on November 25th as part of a long-running dispute over Deliveroo over-recruiting riders, making it impossible for everyone to earn a living wage. Now that the Rebel Roo project has been restarted, you can help share the bulletin around the place to encourage Deliveroo riders in your area make contact with those in places like Brighton, Bristol and Leeds.
In other news from the radical/grassroots end of the union movement, the militant cleaners’ union UVW has opened a new dispute at Lee Hecht Harrison, another successful business in the heart of London’s financial district that pays its cleaners poverty wages. The contractor in charge of the cleaners, City Central Cleaning, have threatened to sack any…
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From Brighton ABC:
“After first month in Polish jails that was heavy and depressing, Patryk feels much better. He had been moved to a 3-man cell and his cell mates are ok, plus he is soon going to start work which will help him kill time and can positively impact his parole hearing. He is allowed 2 visits a month and one 5 minute phone call a week. There is however no limit on the amount of letters Patryk can receive and they are obviously very important for him. He is in the process of sorting out small DVD player with a screen, so he is asking people to send him films and music on DVDs.
Comrades in Poland are going to pay some money into his prison fund so he can buy stuff from the prison shop and they are sorting out books and magazines for him.
Patryk…
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A few recent-ish updates: Uber have lost their appeal against the employment tribunal that ruled that Uber drivers are workers; meanwhile, Deliveroo have managed to get a ruling that Deliveroo drivers are not workers, showing how tricky these kinds of legal strategies can be. Also, City Sprint have apparently made everyone sign new contracts to get around a recent tribunal win for couriers there.
In less legalistic news, the Deliveroo workers’ bulletin, the Rebel Roo, has started publishing again after a six-month break, with a new issue that covers the recent Bristol wildcat – apparently “Unionised riders from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) were there to offer support if it was needed. It wasn’t – the wildcat action from the moped riders was enough.” As ever, you can print a few copies out if you’ve got access to a printer, or email rebelroouk@gmail.com
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It is with great sadness we report that our friend and comrade, Fellow Worker Gaia Pope, a founder-member of Dorset IWW, has passed away in circumstances yet to be revealed.
We extend our condolences to her family and all who knew her. We are all the worse for her loss.
Industrial Workers of the World Dorset 