Over the past two years Union Solidarity has been involved in numerous disputes where workers’ basic rights were denied and where traditional union activity was limited by the current repressive IR laws.

Most of these were won. Union Solidarity makes use of very simple tactics of direct action and solidarity. And it has been effective. Workers have been re-instated, redundancies paid out, other employers warned that anti-worker and anti-union behaviours will have consequences. And those of us participating have been empowered – fighting shoulder to shoulder for the kind of world we want, using a successful act of civil disobedience. Realising that the bosses and politicians don’t have all the power!

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that we have the right to join and form trade unions in the protection of our interests. This Human Right is now being legally violated. It is therefore our duty to disobey these bad laws, and to stand together in defence of our fellow workers’ rights.

If you join the Union Solidarity SMS database, you will receive a message when solidarity is needed at a dispute. You will normally have a few hours or days notice of where and when a community assembly is forming, and you will be able to come and put your body on the line, in defence of the kind of community you want to live in.

In order to form effective community assemblies we need more people responding to these calls, and more people on the database.

To join the database visit www.unionsolidarity.org and click on ‘contact list’ or ‘add your name’ alternative go straight to SMS list form, http://contact.unionsolidarity.org, enter your details and you will start receiving these alerts. There is no spam or other announcements on this alert system. You will only receive notification when solidarity is needed at a dispute.

Please join this important and effective campaign.

See you on the assembly
Union Solidarity

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