Støtte fra Kastrup til London

Ledelsen i Gate Gourmet i London havde ”tilfældigvis” 150 nye cateringmedarbejder klar, med adgangskort uddannelse, politieskorte og det hele, da de havde bortvist deltagerne i en, efter engelske regler, overenskomststridig strejke. Det har dermed vist sig, at ledelsen bevidst havde fremprovokeret strejken.

Tillidsfolk i Københavns lufthavn i Kastrup støtter de bortviste kolleger i Gate Gourmet i London’s Heathrow lufthavn. Det sker bl.a. ved ikke at sende dansk mad med fly til England, som erstatning for den mad de ikke fik med fra Heathrow.

Man har også vedtaget en udtalelse, på Engelsk som kan læses her under:

Copenhagen 24/8 2005

Support to sacked Gate Gourmet Workers in London Heathrow

The shop steward board in Copenhagen Airport from the trade union 3F Kastrup (United Workers Union in Denmark), are sending this message of support to the sacked Gate Gourmet workers in London Heathrow.

We will express our great anger over the way Gate Gourmet had threatened all of you in your just dispute with the company.

We support the demand for immediately reinstalling of all of you in job, with full compensation.

We face similar problems in Copenhagen Airport. The companies and airliners, are trying to solve their problems, by pressing our wages and conditions.

The only answer to that is strong cooperation between the workers from the whole industry, in the airports and across the borders.

We send you our greetings of solidarity – and will continue to deny any return-catering, due to the conflict, to Heathrow Airport from LSG Skychefs and Gate Gourmet Denmark.

Shop stewards for 3500 members in the following companies:

Danish Refuelling Company, DHL Aviation, Gate Gourmet Denmark, Europark ,Post Denmark-INC, LSG Sky Chefs, Nordic Aero Airplane Cleaning, Novia Handling, Nuance, Scandinavian Ground Service, SAS Airplane Workers, Servisair Handling, Sodexho Airplane Cleaning, Shell Statoil Total,