The Vestas workers' struggle
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For a full list of all stories on this website about Vestas, click here. Key articles below:
The environment
Sharp on technology, soft on capitalism
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Mark Lynas has written a provocative book that deserves to be read and discussed.
Liverpool AWL: Socialism and Ecology
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Date:
2 December, 2010 - 19:30 - 21:00
Location:
Training Room, Liverpool Guild of Students, 160 Mount Pleasant, L3 5TR
Description:
How do we understand climate change and the wider ecological crisis that now threatens the homes and food of millions?
With guest Speaker Robin Sivapalan, Workers' Climate Action activist and key organiser of solidarity with workers' occupation of the Vestas wind turbine blade factory on the Isle of Wight
Search 'ideas for freedom liverpool' for Facebook event.
AWL Essex public meeting: Climate change as a class issue - exploring socialist ecology
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Date:
3 November, 2010 - 19:00 - 20:30
Location:
Top Bar (by the Blues Café)
Description:
Can revolutionary, working-class socialism develop answers to capitalist climate crises?
With a speaker from the Workers' Climate Action campaign.
Workers' Climate Action presents: The Flying Bike Picket - defend the right to strike!
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Date:
22 May, 2010 - 15:00 - 17:30
Location:
Meet at Grow Heathrow, Vineries Close, Sipson, UB7 0JG
Description:
On Saturday 22 May, Workers’ Climate Action will be organising a critical mass bike ride in solidarity with the BA cabin crew workers’ struggle and in defence of the right to strike.
British Airways bosses have once again secured a high court injunction against the strike on the basis of a technicality with the balloting process. This represents a further attack on working-class democracy and civil liberties in general; workers who voted overwhelmingly to strike are having their right to do so taken away from them and are expected to simply accept, without any option to protest or dissent, contractual changes in which they had no say whatsoever. Our critical mass will go ahead as a protest in support of the right to strike.
Because of the way that the BASSA/Unite pickets are laid out, using bikes to get around and visit them is the most efficient way of showing solidarity. It’s also a more creative and innovative way of showing our support than more traditional methods.
Details:
WHAT: A critical mass bike ride in solidarity with the BA strikers and a celebration of our victory against the 3rd runway at Heathrow
WHEN: Meet 1pm Saturday 22nd of May.
WHERE: Meet at Grow Heathrow, Vineries Close, Sipson, UB7 0JG, crash space and banner making from 11am. Nearest station West Drayton from Paddington or Reading
WHY:
• We helped beat the 3rd runway and we can help beat Willie Walsh.
• Willie wanted to shaft us with the 3rd runway and now he wants to shaft his workers.
• Willie wants weak workers for his profit margins but we want strong workers fighting for a just green future.
• Willie and the courts say we should roll over and accept whatever our bosses tell us. We say different.
BRING: Bikes, sound systems, banners, picnic, MP3 playlists, fancy dress, indignation and humour
TRAVEL: Meet at Paddington Station at 11am on Saturday to take the train to West Drayton early to make banners
CONTACT: 07985 201 350 text/call for more info www.workersclimateaction.co.uk
London AWL forum: The Copenhagen climate fiasco - what are the lessons?
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Date:
21 January, 2010 - 19:30 - 21:00
Location:
The Grafton Arms, 72 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DU (Warren Street tube)
Description:
The Copenhagen climate talks were an utter failure. What lessons should socialists, labour movement activists and climate campaigners draw?
Speakers will include a Workers' Climate Action activist giving a report back from the protests at the summit.
Facebook event here.
For "Ten lessons from Copenhagen", see here.
Manchester AWL public meeting: Save Vestas, Save Jobs, Save the Planet
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Date:
30 September, 2009 - 21:30 - 23:00
Location:
Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester
Description:
Eyewitness account of the occupation and ongoing struggle by Vestas workers on the Isle of Wight
The Great Nuclear Power Debate
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Date:
11 January, 2010 - 19:30
Location:
PCS union HQ, 160 Falcon Road London SW11 2LN
Description:
Chair of the CND Dr. Kate Hudson will be debating against a professional from the Nuclear Industry Association on the pros and cons for nuclear power.
Joining Kate Hudson will be Chris Baugh, assistant general secretary for the PCS union and active in the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group.
Alongside the Nuclear Industry Association expert will be the GMB union convenor from Sellafield - the worlds first commercial nuclear power station.
How do trade unionists and green campaigners work together to agree on policy for nuclear power? Where is there common ground? When issues become contentious how do we move forward?
The Vestas dispute solidified the issue of climate change as a trade union issue, but how do we now move forward when faced with issues surrounding clean coal or nuclear power?
This debate hopes to raise these issues and work out strategy for moving forward.
Contact Nadine; 07946 172 461/ nadine@bwtuc.org.uk
Vestas workers' rally
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Date:
17 September, 2009 - 14:30
Location:
Assemble Church Litten park, Newport (between library and Morrison's), march to County Hall
Climate Emergency Forum
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Date:
7 November, 2009 - 11:00
Location:
South Camden Community School, London
Description:
Called by Campaign Against Climate Change.