The Ryanair Don't Care Campaign, with the support of the International Workers Association, is holding an International Week of Action against Ryanair, on the 12-18 March.
Ryanair's current policy of recruitment-for-termination is part of the massive exploitation of people who apply to work for the company. As it stands potential cabin crew have to pay a fee of 3000 Euro through an agency to undergo training for Ryanair. As many as 60 people are sacked at any one time after this initial training period, up to 200 people a month. Those who survive are put on a 12 month probationary period on a lower rate of pay than normal cabin crew and Ryanair pocket the difference, as much as £20m a year.
As we begin the week of action against Ryanair, we hope that people across the world are writing, faxing, emailing and making phone calls in protest at the airline's exploitative recruitment practices.
Attached are pro-forma demand letters to send to Ryanair and other key targets, which can be adapted as needed. Don't forget to include your name and/or the name of your organisation, along with contact details and let us know of any reply you receive.
In the order that the letters appear in the attachment, here are the contact details for the targets:
Join North London SolFed for a presentation on the new agency workers regulations.
This free presentation is open to all. Bring friends, workmates, or anyone who's suffered through an agency contract.
WHEN: March 10th | 4-6pm WHERE: London Action Resource Centre, Whitechapel www.londonarc.org CONTACT: North London Solfed | nelsf (a) solfed.org.uk | 07811 017 091
Attached is a copy of the leaflet handed out by Liverpool Solidarity Federation in our picket against Adecco, the text and design shamelessly ripped off from Brighton's original work.
We have just published the first issue of a new newsletter focussed on direct action solidarity: tackling the little gripes and grievances from workplace bullying to wage theft to stolen deposits. Since mid-2011 the Brighton Local of the Solidarity Federation has been running a stall in locations around the city and more recently in Bognor.
Rather than the usual political stall about the big issues of government cuts and policy decisions we decided to use it to talk directly to people about their issues at work, with their landlords or at the Jobcentre. The aim has been to encourage the idea that these problems we face aren’t just something we are having difficulty with as individuals, but rather that they are part of a whole range of wider issues faced by the working class (those who rely on wages and/or benefits to make a living).
Poster designs, two unbranded and one with the SF logo on, for use at pickets and protests against ryanair recruitment scamming.
STOP THE RYANAIR RECRUITMENT SCAM
As we begin the week of action against Ryanair, we hope that people across the world are writing, faxing, emailing and making phone calls in protest at the airline's exploitative recruitment practices.
Leaflet handed to the public during the Combat Workfare demonstration in Liverpool.
A leaflet for the Combat Workfare day of action, specifically aimed at workers in the companies that support the workfare programme.
