19 July 2012
Remploy workers staged the first of two 24-hour strikes today. The action across the country was magnificent, with lots of lively picket lines.
The workers, members of the Unite and GMB unions, will be out again next Thursday, 19 July, in their campaign to stop the government closing 36 of the 54 remaining Remploy factories that provide employment for disabled workers. They are also on a continuous overtime ban.
If the factories are closed, more than 1,700 workers – over 1,500 of them people with disabilities – will be thrown on the dole.
How to help
Visit the picket lines on Thursday at your nearest Remploy factory.
Send messages of support and donations to the Remploy workers’ strike fund. Please make donations payable to ‘GMB’ and send to GMB, Grove Hall, 60 College Grove Rd, Wakefield, WF1 3RN.
In dispute? Tell us
If you are on strike or in dispute, please tell us and give details of where to send messages of support and donations.
Email the website editor and we will put out a call for solidarity.
Please include your phone number for us to get in touch (we won’t publish it).
Solidarity pic: Sasha Simic
