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From: wdrb-AT-siva.bris.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:49:29 GMT
Subject: M-I: Indian solidarity for Hillingdon


For those interested in recent incidents
of international trade union support, here is
a message from the Indian Trade Unions to the
Hillingdon strikers. In brief, a group af
of mainly Asian women cleaners (less than 100)
have been locked out and sacked for protesting
against pay cuts in their jobs as hospital cleaners
in London. After a year they have had support
withdrawn by the national leadership of their
union but fight on regardless with rank and file
support. They are one of several (Liverpool Dockers,
Magnet Kitchens) protracted disputes that are seeking
international perspectives in the UK at present.

Will Brown	Bristol

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All India Central Council of Trade Unions (AICCTU)
Calcutta
20.02.97

Message of Solidarity from AICCTU to the Heroic Hillingdon Fighters

Dear Comrades,

This message of solidarity comes to you from the All India Central Council
of Trade Unions and from many other fellow comrades attending the Fourth
Indian Ocean Regional TU Conference (IORTUC) now underway in Calcutta. We
had heard about your struggle from comrades of the South Asia Solidarity
Group in London and also read about it in a recent issue of Inquilab. And
here in the IORTUC we were glad to hear from comrades from the Liverpool
Dockers' movement that despite betrayal by the trade union establishment of
Britain you are still carrying forward your struggle. We are sending this
small note to salute your fighting unity, courage and determination.

We firmly believe that through your inspiring action you are not only
reclaiming and rejuvenating the progressive elements of working class
tradition and culture in Britain but more importantly you are also
contributing to the process of finding new answers to new problems.

While wishing you every success in this effort let us tell you that we
believe that you have already achieved a significant victory. Your struggle
stands out as a reassuring expression of the proletarian power and resolve
to combat the racist and dehumanising offensive of imperialist capital.

Along with this message of solidarity, we are also taking this opportunity
to send through the Liverpool comrades a few copies of the latest issue of
our newsletter and some picture cards we had issued at the time of our last
conference.
With warm greetings of international working class solidarity.

Dr. Partha Ghosh
Secretary, AICCTU

Dipankar Bhattacharya
General Secretary

Central Office: U-90, Shakarpur, Delhi 110 092
tel: 91 11 222 1067
fax: 91 11 221 8248

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