BEIS workers begin indefinite strike
BEIS, London. Mon 15 Jul 2019
The National Shop Stewards Network had come to support the strikers
PCS bring out the cakes
'Striking For A Living Wage'
'Happy Birthday BEIS - 3 years of Poverty Pay'. Today was the third
anniversary of the founding of the Dept of Business , Energy and Industrial
Strategy
The strikers walk out of BEIS
and were greeted with a cheer from almost a hundred supporters who
were waiting outside
They make a lot of noise
Candles are lit on the BEIS third birthday cake
The striking workers from BEIS are outsourced to Aramark and BEIS
and get lousy pay and conditions
They want a living wage and to get proper conditions of service by
being employed directly by BEIS
The candles were all burning, but some of the photographers demanded
the workers turn so they could see them better
and when they did the wind blew the candles out - but they asked the
woman holding the cake to pretend to blow them
PCS president Fran Heathcote organised the speakers
Ana, one of the leading strikers holds placards of the bosses
PCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka speaks
Ana speaks for the workers
RMT General Secretary Mick Cash speaks
The newly elected UCU general secretary Jo Grady
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says a Labour government will end
the scourge of out-sourcing
National Vice-President of the PCS Zita Holbourne
Mary Glindon, Labour MP for North Tyneside,
Sam Gurney, TUC Regional Secretary for London, East & South East
England
Sandy Nicoll of SOAS Unison who led the succesful campaign to bring
workers there back in-house
Kiri Tunks, Joint President of the NEU trade
Mark Serwotak and Mick Cash have there pictures taken with the strikers
The cake is cut
I had a piece of the cake but had to leave rather than join in with the
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