Support the 2nd Annual March and Rally for Shrewsbury 24 on Sat 3rd July

Message from Shropshire & Telford Trades Council

Support the 2nd Annual Shrewsbury 24 March and Rally on Sat 3rd July

Assemble at Abbey Forgate car park SYA 6ND from 10-30am onwards

In 21st century Britain an unelected judge deems as illegal a democratic decision of workers to take strike action. Lord Justice McCombe’s recent high court ruling against BA cabin crew shows that yet again the law can be relied on to back the rich and the powerful. The outrageous decision to outlaw strikes at British Airways is directed against everyone who wants to see resistance to the ConDem Coalition’s agenda of savage cuts.

The bosses and the government are on the offensive against workers and the entire union movement has to fight back. Shropshire and Telford Trades Council invite trade unionists and supporters to joins us for a March and Rally demanding justice for the Shrewsbury pickets, criminalised and jailed following the 1972 building workers strike, and forging solidarity with workers fighting back now in the face of draconian anti-union laws.

Last year's event was a tremendous success, the rally - outside the court where the pickets were sentenced - reinvigorated the Shrewsbury 24 Campaign and brought the lessons of struggle and resistance to a wide layer of activist and campaigners both old and new.

Follow link below for photo collage of the last year’s event

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brp4YcjGTp8

New short film about the Shrewsbury Pickets including interviews with Ricky Tomlinson & Des Warren.

Heroes of trade unions in the construction industry - one of the worst miscarriages of justice in the 20th Century

Downloadable from www.crackskull.co.uk.

Mon 28, June 2010 @ 22:07