SOAS raided this morning by Immigration Police

Icon_article Star-blue1 Published: June 12, 2009 09:50 by riku

Tagged as: cleaners deportation immigration migration repression soas solidarity workers_struggles
Neighbourhoods: soas

This morning at 8, SOAS University was raided by Immigration police who rounded up 9 of our cleaners and are threatening to deport them tonight.

We have fought hard with the cleaners to get them union representation and a decent wage (which we have now got). many of them have been working here for years, and have their whole lives here in london..

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Justice for Cleaners Campaign

apprarently this has happened at UCL too, and i believe on the tube where active cleaners were pulled up in front of management and subsequently fired because their working documents were not up to scratch


please offer your support by emailing MPs, MEPs, SOAS Management, anyone you can think of....

thanks

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Comment Published: June 12, 2009 10:13 by crossposter

context: this is over cleaners demanding he reinstatement of Joseph Stalin Bermudez, sacked union shop steward on trumped up charges. there was a demo today and it looks like there have been mass arrests over immigration papers. please pass this on and get down to SOAS if you can, especially if you have legal knowledge

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Comment Published: June 12, 2009 16:20 by milli

There was a good initial support rally on this matter today at 5pm outside SOAS. The detained persons are held at Old Street and Borough Immigration Centre and are set to be deported on Monday. Everyone is totally shocked at this nasty attack on SOAS cleaners.