Monday, 26 August 2019

new film SOLIDARITY by LUCY PARKER (Trailer) This excellent new film is supported by LESE Construction Campaigns Task Group

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The TUC LESE Construction Campaign Task Group (CCTG) meets regularly on a quarterly basis, and the meetings are well attended with lively debates on the current state of the construction industry in London and the South East.
Chair: K Williamson (UNITE)
Vice Chair: K Campbell (UNITE) 
Secretary: M Larkin (UNITE)​
 
Meeting Calendar
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Friday 7 September 2019 
“Gave the blacklisting scandal a human face” Dave Smith, Blacklist Support Group
A new film SOLIDARITY by LUCY PARKER (Trailer)
This excellent new film is supported by LESE Construction Campaigns Task Group  
SOLIDARITY is about the secretive methods used against UK activists and trade unionists. In the film blacklisted construction workers and activists spied on by the police share their ongoing struggles.
Blacklisting in the UK construction industry impacted thousands of workers who were labelled 'troublemakers' for speaking out and secretively denied employment. Activists uncovered alarming links between workplace blacklisting and undercover policing. Solidarity attentively follows meetings between activists and law students, brought together for the film, revealing the determination of a community working together to find a route to justice.
The debut feature length film by artist filmmaker Lucy Parker it has been made alongside and features members of Blacklist Support Group, core participants in Undercover Policing Inquiry, and members of other campaigning groups including Justice For Domestic Workers, Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union, Independent Workers of Great Britain, Unite the Union, Police Spies Out of Lives, GWB, RMT, Unite British Airways Mixed Fleet, County Durham Teaching Assistants, Bakers And Food Alliance Workers Union, BECTU Picturehouse and many individual trade unionists.
All screening and support enquiries please contact: City Projects on 0781 306 2595 or info@solidarityfilm.com  
Friday 6 September 2019, Construction Campaigns Task Group
Friday 6 December 2019, Construction Campaigns Task Group
Friday 5 June 2020, Construction Campaigns Task Group AGM
Tuesday 28 April 2020, London Workers' Memorial Day 
Contact 
020 7467 1218
020 7467 1220

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