The Flying Bike Picket! Saturday 22 May – support the BA workers & the Right to Strike!
From Workers’ Climate Action:
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.
UPDATE
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.
Judges have ruled that the BA strike, recently banned by the High Court on a balloting technicality (see here), can go ahead (see the BBC website and the Guardian website for more).
Report: UK Protest in solidarity for the struggle for Democracy in Thailand
I was hoping to take a little bit of a break after successfully campaigning against the British National Party in the run up to the British general and local elections. However at the early hours of Tuesday 18th May, I received an email from Junya Lek Yimprasert, founder of Thai Labour Campaign, asking for solidarity and a demonstration in support of the people of Thailand for Thursday 20th May.
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Junya Lek Yimprasert
My initial reaction was “not bloody likely!” but then moments later I heard on BBC Radio 4, a report about the violence and I guessed that the government preparing for an onslaught against the “Red Shirts” in the occupied commercial district of Bangkok.
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