BMW - MINI OXFORD PLANT SACKING AGENCY WORKERS

meeting between trade union and agency workers held 16/02/2008 at plant oxford 30 minutes before sacking shift C "yellow"

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• Mini
• Oxford

[esjayay]

i heard they all came back, is it true?

[adamtys79]

@esjayay most of them

[esjayay]

@adamtys79 do they still have the weekend shift?

[adamtys79]

@esjayay no there is no weekend shift any more.

[Joyriser]

Right behind you! Get your money back from that shite union. The employers , the agencies AND THE UNIONS are taking the piss. That union rep is just lining his own pockets!!

[p4eugeot]

the quicker people stop reading the sun and supporting football,and look whats happening to them, we'll never move on how can anyone 'earning' £4-00 per hour go and watch some silly cunt kick a ball around for an hour and a half and get £100.000? but it keeps their tiny minds waway from problems such as this

[SideshowBob44]

They were agency workers BMW are completely within there right to get rid of them whenever they please. I now its not right but its the truth.

[captpineapplee]

STALKER

[RedAbz18]

To do this we must blame who needs to be blamed in the unions. And that is primarily the leadership and those who defend it. We should remove people like Simpson and put in the likes of Jerry Hicks.

[RedAbz18]

To be united and defend ourselves we of course need to be organised and therefore need to be unionised. So the most import task is not to stop blaming unions, but is the opposite. We must expose the undemocratic and anti-working class union leadership. We must transform our unions into organisations which will actually defend us, and in doing so bring in the most exploited (migrant, young and unskilled) workers into the unions and work to defend the our class as a whole.

[RedAbz18]

The leadership in most unions is very corrupt. The heads of these bureaucracies do not defend our interests and often work to divide our class along profession and race. Just look at Derik Simpson and the way he helped to present the wildcat strikes as being for British jobs for British workers, when the slogans of the strikers had nothing whatsoever to do with nationality it was a struggle for conditions.

[RedAbz18]

RMT underground, you are certainly right that the only way to effectively defend ourselves during the recession will be through unity with our class against the capitalists. But the role of unions and their leadership is not isolated from this mate.