Following the successful conference in Liverpool at the end of March this year, attended by over 100 trades unionists, the Finsbury Park Branch of the RMT have made a call to have a similar conference in London. We are told that migrants undermine the wages and conditions of workers. But it is immigration controls which actually attack us all. The invention of 'illegal' people, the creation of workers with unequal rights: these leave workers vulnerable to super-exploitation, slavery and act as a discipline against the whole working class. This is all about to get even worse with new legislation making employers regularly check the papers of migrant workers, marking them out for special treatment. This discriminatory treatment creates a climate of fear and division in the workforce. The issues taken up by such a conference will include:
- TU Organisation, right to work and right to equality of pay/conditionsirrespective of status
- How trades union can help fight the three Ds facing refugees and migrants many of whom will be our members - deportation, detentions and destitution.
- Defiance not Compliance: caring workers are asked to shop and cut off benefits to migrants; pilots, drivers asked to deport them. How can the unions stop this?
- How immigration controls undermine the conditions of all workers
- The proposed 'amnesty' for migrants
- How do we stop migrants being singled out by employers to produce papers?
Come to the planning meeting Wednesday 25th July, 7pm at the Red Rose Club, 129 Seven Sisters Road, N7
Contact: No One is Illegal, c/o Bolton Socialist Club, 16 WoodStreet, Bolton BL1 1DY. Web: www.noii.org.uk, e-mail: info@noii.org.uk .