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Manchester Airport strikers demo 23rd Feb

Richard Searle | 25.02.2002 00:15

Support the Manchester Airport security staff strikers March through manchester City Centre Saturday 23rd February Photos by Mark Krantz (article 1)

Manchester Airport strikers demo 23rd Feb

Manchester Airport security staff face 40% pay cuts, longer working week, and reduction in holidays or the sack. Airport bosses give themselves 40% pay rises
Manchester Airport makes £53 million clear profit last year

Send messages of support and donations to TGWU office. Freepost. Merchants Quay, Salford Quays. M50 9FG

Send messages of condemnation to Chief Exceutive of Manchester Airport.

geoff.muirhead@manairport.co.uk

Richard Searle

Comments

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hardly

25.02.2002 01:18

sorry, but bollox. manchester airport is a liability. it needs to be churned over with bulldozers, and to then get a full permaculture makeover. this posting has SWP written all over it if that wasn't obvious enough, with the same tired old agenda.

gobsmacked

what a tosser...........

25.02.2002 11:51

oh those horrible proles do whinge don't they? and of course it's an swp manipulation to highkack our minds! everyones mind! no one is safe! any minute now a CC member could be knocking on YOUR door in the middle of the night. EVIL, EVIL I TELL'S YA.
Bollox to you mate.

otter

link to TGWU press release

25.02.2002 17:43

Direct link to TGWU press release:

internationalist
Homepage: http://www.tgwu.org.uk/tgonline/newsrelease/2002/pr0044.htm

oh how silly of me

25.02.2002 18:24

i) of course, what we really need is at least five runways, so loads more aircraft can thunder across the skies of manchester, billowing out tonnes more pollutants and greenhouse gases into the upper atmosphere so that more business people can fly to Bangkok whenever they feel like it. and perhaps we can build a few more motorways and car parks in the area seeing as there's nothing much there apart from a rather useless bit of countryside.
ii) oh and don't the working class just love doing crap, boring jobs making money for fat tossers. please, lets have more of them, but then, don't make the pay too crap or heaven help us, they might take to the streets and give the SWP am opportunity to put a pointless posting up on indymedia. yes, that's what i meant to say all along.
iii) since when were the TGWU interested in popular struggle? I think the Liverpool dockers might have a thing or two to say about that.

gobsmacked

The TGWU

25.02.2002 19:01

The T&GWU can get stuffed. It was their members who were running scab coal up the motorways during the miners strike.

Ronnie.

If you can't WHAT then it's not your WHAT?

26.02.2002 10:51

I mean you people make me sick on Indymedia. I really like the idea of Indymedia where people can publish details of their struggles. But where does it say if you are not an anarchist then you will get your struggle slagged off by lots of other computer nerds?

Just please stop having a go at everything which does not call for the trashing of something. OK so airports and manchester airport raises enviro issues. But what's wrong with looking at it from the view of the workers?

boredboredbored

the working class are an SWP front!

26.02.2002 13:45

The pics above are obvious fakes. Everyone knows the working class doesn't exist any more. When will the Trots stop trying to scam us with these daft hoaxes? Same with this alleged 'rail strike'.. we're supposed to believe there are still railways in this day and age? Yeah right.

a nonny mouse

I don't think so!

26.02.2002 16:52

Come on. How can the working class be a SWP front? The working class just think they are a joke which is why no working class people join.

Ivor the Engine.

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