tenham were sacked. Their only crime was joining a J.J. Fast Foods is a distribution company supplying food to schools and many other workplaces, mainly around the South East. The workers here hal a 60-70 boen weik Six years ago they were paid £180 a week; now they are paid only £130.
There is no overtime pay. no sick pay, and no boliday nay. The drivers have to pay parking fines and the first trucks out of their pay.
It is therefore no surprise that more than half of the 75 workers decided to join the TGWU, elected a shop steward at a mass meeting, and made the following demands:
• All workers to have conhas already voted to contribute £1,000 to the strike fund.
Several schools have cancelled their contracts with the company. After three days. the boss requested to meet the union. asked for 24 hours ta then refused them again.
This shows that his busi- on December 6. ness is suffering. Further loss meet the workers' demands. Many workplace canteens are supplied by J.J. Fast Foods.
• Join the picket, Milldon NIT, every morning at 6.00 am (Saturday, 8.00).
• Jenny's Restaurant and Jenny's Burger are franchises contracted to J.J. Fast Foods. Don't eat there: preferably get in and tell them why. Mr. M Kaimil, Managing Director, JJ Fast Food Distribu. tion Ltd, Unit One, Lockwood Millmead Committee. The hunger strike will also be supported by CARF, the National Network ALGERIAN and Ivory Against Detentions and DeCoast asylum seekers portations, the Colin Roach will join a hunger strike Centre, the Campaign to outside the Social Serv- Close Campsfield and the Ices Advisory Committee Close Down Harmondsworth Campaign. The SSAC offices are at New Court, 48 Carey St, Lonregulations restricting benefits to asylum seekers and don WC2.
More details of the lobby Immigrants, which will be trom CARF, 0171-837-1450 under discussion by the ON DECEMBER 18 Peter Lilley is due to announce new regulations on social security and other benefits in the Commons.
The Campaign Against the Immigration and Asylum Bill and the Asylum Rights called a lobby of parliament the following day outside the Commons and at a meeting 1pm-5pm in Committee Room 14.
December 19 marks the point from which MPs can request a vote on these regulaions (which could otherwise be automatically accepted).
If they đo so, the vote will occur early in January (before January 8, when the new regulations are designed to come into effect).
More detail CAlAB. Co CAPA, St Hilda's East Community Centre, 18 Club Row, London E2 7EY.
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