Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Saturday, 16 June 2007
BBQ TODAY!!!
Get yersels on the 3.15 fae Glasgow Queen St low level to Milngavie. We've a bus sorted to pick us up at the station to take us to Mugdock. There are also free buses going from Milngavie Stn to Mugdock all day.
This is a much easier option for folk with cars too as the music festival will make car parking very busy. Bus will return at 9.30 to coincide with the 10 pm train.
The weather is to clear up!!
This is a much easier option for folk with cars too as the music festival will make car parking very busy. Bus will return at 9.30 to coincide with the 10 pm train.
The weather is to clear up!!
Tuesday, 12 June 2007
Tuesday, 5 June 2007
Support the Tesco Workers
Click on the images below to read the Tesco Workers Scottish Socialist Voice:
Saturday, 2 June 2007
Wednesday, 30 May 2007
Comrades come rally - to the Mugdock International Music Festival!
SSP Campsie Branch BBQ - Saturday 16th June - starting at 4pm, Mugdock Country Park. Transport details to follow.
Check out the Mugdock website and you will see that our BBQ coincides with an international music festival. Comrades come rally - with your instruments! And we can sing/ play some left wing music to the music fans!
Bring yer own food and drink - we will supply charcoal, fire, paper plates and music! Bring a banner/ flag!
All comrades in the branch will have recieved this letter from Joint Branch Organiser, Pamela Page. Click on image to read -
TWECHAR REGENERATION MEETING
Twechar Miners Welfare - Monday 11th June 7.30 pm
Since the Q&A session at Twechar Healthy Living Centre, confusion over the regeneration of Twechar has increased.
As one local resident put it - if you asked ten people who were at the meeting the same question you would get ten different answers!
People want answers to such questions as how many houses are being built and how many are being allocated to those being decanted? Where will people be decanted to and will amenities be adequate?
Older people are afraid that they will not be allowed to return to the village once they are moved -one of these a 93 year old woman who has lived in Twechar all her life...
and why is disturbance money being used to pay off rent and council tax arrears?
When one local resident contacted regeneration manager, JOHN GREY to ask some of these questions, she was informed that he did not speak to the public and that she should contact a housing officer. Where is the resident participation and transparency from Edinvar?
People are pleased that the village is being regenerated but are concerned and want answers to basic questions about their future.
Edinvar representatives, local Councillors and MSP's have been invited to this meeting. Come and put YOUR questions to those who should be giving you the answers YOU- THE PEOPLE OF TWECHAR - DESERVE.
TRANSPORT IS AVAILABLE.
For more information: Willie Telfer - 07966 782752
Check out the Mugdock website and you will see that our BBQ coincides with an international music festival. Comrades come rally - with your instruments! And we can sing/ play some left wing music to the music fans!
Bring yer own food and drink - we will supply charcoal, fire, paper plates and music! Bring a banner/ flag!
Our next meeting is in Milton of Campsie Village Hall, at 7.30pm on Wednesday 13th JUNE. New members are welcome. We will be giving an update of the fantastic developments in the Twechar Housing Campaign (see below for update). Also, come with ideas on a new branch banner and topics you would like to hear speakers on - or discussions you would like to have in branch in the future.
All comrades in the branch will have recieved this letter from Joint Branch Organiser, Pamela Page. Click on image to read -
TWECHAR REGENERATION MEETING
Twechar Miners Welfare - Monday 11th June 7.30 pm
Since the Q&A session at Twechar Healthy Living Centre, confusion over the regeneration of Twechar has increased.
As one local resident put it - if you asked ten people who were at the meeting the same question you would get ten different answers!
People want answers to such questions as how many houses are being built and how many are being allocated to those being decanted? Where will people be decanted to and will amenities be adequate?
Older people are afraid that they will not be allowed to return to the village once they are moved -one of these a 93 year old woman who has lived in Twechar all her life...
and why is disturbance money being used to pay off rent and council tax arrears?
When one local resident contacted regeneration manager, JOHN GREY to ask some of these questions, she was informed that he did not speak to the public and that she should contact a housing officer. Where is the resident participation and transparency from Edinvar?
People are pleased that the village is being regenerated but are concerned and want answers to basic questions about their future.
Edinvar representatives, local Councillors and MSP's have been invited to this meeting. Come and put YOUR questions to those who should be giving you the answers YOU- THE PEOPLE OF TWECHAR - DESERVE.
TRANSPORT IS AVAILABLE.
For more information: Willie Telfer - 07966 782752
Friday, 25 May 2007
Tesco workers sacked by taxi
Click on the "Value for Shareholders" sign for a leaflet you can print out and send to the TGWU in solidarity:
Drivers at the Tesco delivery depots in Scotland are striking against brutal threats from the multinational’s bosses.Management have insisted drivers must sign up to pay cuts of between £3-6,000, and accept de-recognition of their trade union, and have in fact just spent a day scuttling round Scotland in taxis delivering redundancy notices to their drivers’ homes. The drivers deliver food and supplies to 100 stores across the country, which will be hit hard by the three-day strike on the eve of the busy bank holiday weekend. Tesco bosses are using the excuse of a move to a new site - 50 yards across the motorway from the existing Livingston depot.
ACTION YOU CAN TAKE: something everyone can do is ring up the Tesco Customer Service line on 0800 50 55 55. It's a freephone number.
One SSP member has said:
After discovering it I have just rung up and said as a regular Tesco shopper. I am concerned that they have sacked their drivers and used cowboy driver company Yuill & Dodds. [It is important to be polite and friendly in manner - it's a low-paid call-centre worker you will be speaking to.] I asked if this report was true, because if so I would be ending my custom and advising others to do likewise.
The lad said it was a strike because of a move to new depot - but I was able to advise him the strike only started last night whereas drivers were sacked by taxi deliveries two days ago, etc. In fact I think he was genuinely shocked at the facts of £3-6,000 pay cuts, union de-recognition, sackings of the drivers etc.
They will ask for your name and address, and I asked for a written explanation from top management - which is unlikely to happen, but all such calls are logged and passed on to top manmagement! So it's a simple and free way to pressurise Tesco bosses.
Please act on these suggestions - and let us know of any interesting responses you get!
Please pass the word.
More information will be posted on the SSP website.
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Meeting and BBQ
Our next meeting is in Milton of Campsie Village Hall, at 7.30pm on Wednesday 30th May. New members are welcome. We will be giving an update of the fantastic developments in the Twechar Housing Campaign, a real example of how people can make a huge difference, amongst other things.
SSP Campsie Branch BBQ - Saturday 16th June - starting at 4pm, Mugdock Country Park. Transport details to follow. Bring yer own food and drink - we will supply charcoal, fire, paper plates and music! Bring a banner/ flag!
SSP Campsie Branch BBQ - Saturday 16th June - starting at 4pm, Mugdock Country Park. Transport details to follow. Bring yer own food and drink - we will supply charcoal, fire, paper plates and music! Bring a banner/ flag!
Click on picture for info on Mugdock Country Park.
Friday, 18 May 2007
WILLIE TELFER MAKES BIG IMPACT AT PCS CONFERENCE
Scottish Socialist Party members who are delegates to this week’s PCS national conference in Brighton have made a huge impact.
They’re speaking on issues like privatisation, and are moving a major motion to commit the union to an £8-an-hour minimum wage for all workers and trainees over 16.
Colin Fox, the Scottish Socialist Party’s national convener, was a guest speaker at the Department of Transport PCS group conference on our case for free public transport - which was then debated and agreed as policy, moved by Campsie Branch SSP member, and Twechar Housing campaigner, Willie Telfer and supported by the union’s Group Executive Committee.
Willie has also been re-elected as UK-wide Assistant Group Secretary of the union in the transport section.
Meantime longstanding socialist and SSP member John Jamieson has been elected to the PCS national executive committee, as part of an almost total clean sweep for the Democracy Alliance of socialists and democrats.
And our efforts are not restricted to the PCS. At the Fire Brigades Union national conference Scottish Socialist Party members were at the heart of a solidarity collection for the Sunvic strikers, raising £1,500 to help sustain their battle against vicious treatment by scab-hiring bosses.
And in a debate around the FBU and political links, during which a motion to re-affiliate the union to New Labour was overwhelmingly defeated, SSP member Jimmy Scott successfully moved an amendment which re-stated the FBU’s commitment to “a socialist form of society”, a longstanding FBU rule-book clause which collides with New Labour’s whole philosophy and practice.
They’re speaking on issues like privatisation, and are moving a major motion to commit the union to an £8-an-hour minimum wage for all workers and trainees over 16.
Colin Fox, the Scottish Socialist Party’s national convener, was a guest speaker at the Department of Transport PCS group conference on our case for free public transport - which was then debated and agreed as policy, moved by Campsie Branch SSP member, and Twechar Housing campaigner, Willie Telfer and supported by the union’s Group Executive Committee.
Willie has also been re-elected as UK-wide Assistant Group Secretary of the union in the transport section.
Meantime longstanding socialist and SSP member John Jamieson has been elected to the PCS national executive committee, as part of an almost total clean sweep for the Democracy Alliance of socialists and democrats.
And our efforts are not restricted to the PCS. At the Fire Brigades Union national conference Scottish Socialist Party members were at the heart of a solidarity collection for the Sunvic strikers, raising £1,500 to help sustain their battle against vicious treatment by scab-hiring bosses.
And in a debate around the FBU and political links, during which a motion to re-affiliate the union to New Labour was overwhelmingly defeated, SSP member Jimmy Scott successfully moved an amendment which re-stated the FBU’s commitment to “a socialist form of society”, a longstanding FBU rule-book clause which collides with New Labour’s whole philosophy and practice.
Thursday, 10 May 2007
Alan McCombes on election result
Click here for election analysis from Alan McCombes:
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We fought in hope, and we got beat. Big time.
But last Thursday’s electoral rout does not mean that the Scottish Socialist Party is a spent force, or that we’re about to implode for months on end to indulge in self recrimination and doubt before tentatively hitting the streets again.
While the media lens was turned on the race for Holyrood, time didn’t stop and life went on inexorably, the rich getting that little bit richer while the poor got poorer, the private sector expanding while public sector waiting lists sprawled off the end of the page, luxury flats going up while council housing came down, war raging while peace foundered, people dying of excess while others were wasted through want.
And just as surely as this goes on, so too does our fight for the radical alternative.
More on the SSP main website - click here:
We fought in hope, and we got beat. Big time.But last Thursday’s electoral rout does not mean that the Scottish Socialist Party is a spent force, or that we’re about to implode for months on end to indulge in self recrimination and doubt before tentatively hitting the streets again.
While the media lens was turned on the race for Holyrood, time didn’t stop and life went on inexorably, the rich getting that little bit richer while the poor got poorer, the private sector expanding while public sector waiting lists sprawled off the end of the page, luxury flats going up while council housing came down, war raging while peace foundered, people dying of excess while others were wasted through want.
And just as surely as this goes on, so too does our fight for the radical alternative.
More on the SSP main website - click here:
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