The 300 workers sacked by airline catering company LSG Lufthansa Sky Chiefs are continuing their battle after being dismissed for taking unofficial industrial action. This is the real face of supposed Fairness at work we are offered by the Labour government.
A mass meeting on January 7 resolved to step up the fight for support from the broader labour movement as well as pursuing a case for unfair dismissal.
Strikers are pleased that Bill Morris has regularly visited them on the picket line, but frustrated that all donations to the strike are going into the T&GWU's coffers, while the strikers survive on a measly £50 strike pay. This is obviously insufficient to live on - especially where more Alan Thornett's firsthand account of ade union serious lessons for trade union activists today. 448 pages, illustrated. £11.95 plus £2 post and packing, from Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. than one person may be dependent on it - and also leaves the strikers no resources for publicity and campaigning.
Texas-based Sky Chefs is one of the world's biggest airline catering companies, supplying food to Air France, American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Olympic Airlines and Iberia.
It is positive that a mass picket has been called for February 1 but the pressure needs to be stepped up to demand that T&GWU workers, whose organisation remains strong at Heathrow refuse to handle food produced by scabs. Whether the Sky Chefs support group, also to be launched on February 1 seemingly under the close eye of regional union officials will help in this direction remains to be seen.
• Donations and messages of support to: Skychefs dispute, TGWU, Transport house, Uxbridge Rd, Hillingdon, Mid-. diesex UB10 OLY Visit the 24 hour picket: three quarters of a mile down Faggs Lane, off A30 (nr Hatton Cross underground) Woods, snacks and hot drinks appreciated.
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