The Critchley Solidarity Page
Sacked for defending Union Rights!
CRITCHLEY FAILS TO ERASE DISPUTE FROM HISTORY
Critchley Technology Limited, whose Label subsidiary is at the centre of a recognition dispute, has been accused by the CWU of trying to re-write history in an attempt to boost their share price. Critchley had asked the Union to delete all references to the dispute from the CWU web site.
This page is devoted solely to the 31 members of the Communication Workers Union in South Wales who were sacked on Thursday 6 February 1997 by Critchley Label Technology after taking protest action to defend their right to be represented by their union.
Over two years on the picket line, the Critchley 31 had the full support of the Communications International and the CWU who have organised international support in solidarity with this courageous struggle.
"The Website at Critchley Labels in Croespenmaen, south-east Wales, recently called for an 'electronic picket' of the plant.
"For 24 hours, sister organisations of the British Communications Workers Union around the world jammed the company's faxes, e-mail addresses and Websites to stop the business receiving orders."
.......... quoted from the Mail on Sunday 26 July 1998
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CRITCHLEY FAILS TO ERASE DISPUTE FROM HISTORY. Critchley Technology Limited, whose Label subsidiary is at the centre of a recognition dispute, has been accused by the CWU of trying to re-write history in an attempt to boost their share price. Critchley had asked the Union to delete all references to the dispute from the CWU web site. CWU
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HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH IN UK'S LONGEST STRIKE
CWU General Secretary Derek Hodgson said: 'This is great news for our members who can now get on with the rest of their lives. But Critchley, and those who seek to imitate them, must understand that our fire-power remains concentrated on this renegade relic of workhouse culture.'
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Critchley 2 years on, CWU Voice" March 1999
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Union chief calls for BT to end contract with "unethical" Critchley Labels CWU, 11 February 1999
- Industrial action - high-tech style - BBC, 5 February 1999
- WANTED: Electronic Pickets - CWU,1 February 1999 - For a full list of Critchley websites, e-mail addresses, fax and phone numbers, click http://www.critchleygroup.com/trading.html
- PICKETS OLD - AND NEW - TO HIT CRITCHLEY AS STRIKE REACHES SECOND ANNIVERSARY - CWU 26 January 1999
- Billy Bragg pledges support!
- CRITCHLEY UPDATE 8 January 1999 - CWU link
- CRITCHLEY DISPUTE 2ND ANNIVERSARY DEMONSTRATION - on 12 February
- What is a "techno-strike"?
- Critchley Solidarity Meeting at the Labour Party Conference, Blackpool, 1:00pm to 1:45pm Tuesday 29 September 1998
- Critchley Strikers Lobby Shareholders - a CWU link, 8 July 1998
- March and Rally in Stroud - Tuesday 24 March 1998
- Communications International calls for week of Solidarity Protest
Flood Critchley with protests week commencing 2 February 1998. Model protest letter and Critchley addresses, e-mail and fax details are included.
- Photographs from the Critchley Labels Dispute - with thumbnails for fast download
- Photographs from the Critchley Labels Dispute - same photographs but no thumbnails - slow
- Cardiff March and Rally - 1 November 1997
- Critchley Strikers - Register Your Support via Critchley's E-Mail and Fax
- Critchley Group on the Slide by Alan Harley, May 1997
- Support the Critchley 31 - background briefing by the CWU
- Critchley Strikers Need Your Support - March and Rally in Nottingham, 14 May 1997
- Cheers and Tears for the Critchley Strikers by Eddie Barrett, April 1997
- Internet Support for Critchley Strikers, April, 1997
- Striking Critchley Workers Sacked!2 March, 1997
- Strike at Critchley as Union is Banned
- CWU Home Page
- Check out the Articles Page
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- Try the Useful Multimedia Links Page - hundreds of trade union, telecom, postal and political links
- The Critchley Solidarity Page
The Critchley strikers were sacked for the right to have their union recognised.
For further information contact Simon Sapper, Communication Workers Union, 150 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19 1RX
Telephone: 0181 971 7200
The Critchley 31 and the Communication Workers Union ask for your help and support.
Messages of support should be sent to
Derek Hodgson
General Secretary
Communication Workers Union
150 The Broadway
Wimbledon
London SW19 1RX
UK
Tel: +44 (0)181 971 7200
Fax: +44 (0)181 971 7300
or, E-mailed to the CWU at 101354.1171@compuserve.com.
E-Mail your protests to the Critchley management at critchleycomponents@dial.pipex.com or leave a message on the Critchley web site at http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/hj72/index.htm for the UK, Europe and Asia.
Critchley's Website in the USA is at http://www.critchley.com.
Any donations would be welcome and should be made out to "CWU - Critchley Fighting Fund" and sent to the Union headquarters, address as above.
Their fight is ours, their victory will be yours.
Pictures Copyright © 1997 Donald MacDonald. You are welcome to reproduce photographs downloaded from these pages if you support the Critchley workers.
