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Critchley Strikers - Register Your Support

Electronic Pickets Wanted

A Rally in support of the 31 sacked workers at Critchley Labels in South Wales - all members of the Communication Workers Union sacked for defending trade union rights - will take place at Critchley Label Technology's Croespenmaen factory, Unit 3 Oakwood Close, Pen-Y-Fan Industrial Estate, Crumlin, near Newport, at 1:00pm on Wednesday 25 June.

Defenders of trade union rights and concerned citizens are urged to contact the Critchley Group of companies on Wednesay 25 June to express their support for the sacked workers and to call for their re-instatement to full employment rights.

Critchley’s e-mail address in the UK is critchleycomponents@dial.pipex.com.

Some other useful addresses in North America are:


Useful Critchley Fax Numbers:


Full details and background briefings of the Critchley workers’ struggle can be found at


The Critchley 31 and the Communication Workers Union ask for your help and support.


Messages of support should be sent to

Tony Young
Joint General Secretary
Communication Workers Union
Greystoke House
150 Brunswick Road
Ealing
London W5 1AW

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.

For other material relating this dispute and the CWU, please click on to:

  • Critchley Strikers - March and Rally, Cardiff, 1st November 1997
  • Critchley Strikers - Register Your Support Electronic Pickets Wanted (20 June 1977)
  • 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
  • Return to the Articles Page
  • Return to the Home Page
  • Try the Useful Multimedia Links Page - hundreds of trade union, telecom, postal and political links

    Their fight is ours, their victory will be yours.
    Article Copyright © 1997 Picture by Charlotte MacDonald. You are welcome to reproduce this article if you support the Critchley workers.


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