GOSH bosses use courts to undermine strike: protest at the Royal Courts of Justice!

SaturdayBosses at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London have used the courts to block effective picketing by striking security guards, who now face criminal charges if they attempt anything beyond the most tame, ineffectual activity within 200 metres of their workplace. The injunction is another example of how the laws and judiciary are a tool in the hands of employers to restrict workers’ ability to assert themselves and improve their conditions. The workers’ union, United Voices of the World, has called a protest at the Royal Courts of Justice at 10am on Wednesday 16 February, when the injunction will be contested. Pushing workers’ rights up the agenda in Labour: online meeting, 5pm, 19 February UCU activist Rhian Keyse will speak on behalf of Free Our Unions at an online meeting on Saturday 19 February, organised by Labour Left Internationalists, discussing the fight for radical policy on workers’ rights within the Labour Party. Log in via Zoom here. Click here for more info. Support striking workers! Donate to the strike fund for striking JustEat/Stuart couriers, participating in the longest strike in “gig economy” history Protest in support of striking Actavo scaffolders, 22 February, British Steel, Scunthorpe Higher Education workers in the University and College Union are striking from 14 February. Click here for more info Coventry bin workers continue strikes for better pay. Click here for more London Underground workers will strike on 1 and 3 March to defend jobs, conditions, and pensions.