[mobglob-discuss] Fw: Telecoms workers in South Africa need our help, now

[Paul Browning]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ericlee at labourstart.org>
To: <labourstart at unionlists.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 3:55 AM
Subject: Telecoms workers in South Africa need our help, now


> Imagine a company that employs more than 60,000 workers decides to fire half of them.  And then figuring that it wasn't enough, it announces plans to sack a few thousand more.  Imagine that company doing this in a country with an unemploment rate of over 40%. That's pretty bad, but imagine if that same company was making huge profits, paying its managers and directors massive bonuses.  
> 
> It's enough to make your blood boil.
> 
> Is it enough to make you click on your mouse?
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> Three unions in South Africa have asked LabourStart to launch an international, online campaign against Telkom -- which is the company I described above.  (The unions are  the Communication Workers Union, Solidarity and the South African Communication Union.)
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> They hope that by getting thousands of you to spread the word, it will force the company to rethink further retrenchments.
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> Please go to:
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> http://www.labourstart.org/telkom
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> Send off your message today.  
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> And spread the word -- if you're in a telecoms union, make sure your union gets involved.  The communication workers' unions in Britain and North America alone have over 1,000,000 members.  Together we can make this the largest online campaign LabourStart has ever waged.
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> ***
> 
> While on the subject of South Africa, you may remember that last week we announced that Radio LabourStart would be playing the entire album "Solidarity Forever", recorded at a COSATU national conference.  Hundreds of you tuned in, but -- it seems that a fairly large number of you were not able to play the music.  I wonder if the instructions on the Live365.com website weren't clear enough.  If you're one of the people who wanted to listen to Radio LabourStart but couldn't get it to work, please drop us a line and we'll try to sort things out.  Thanks.
> 
> Meanwhile, we're adding new content every day to the radio station, so if you haven't tuned in recently, please do visit our newly re-launched site: 
> 
> http://radio.labourstart.org/
> 
> Eric Lee
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