Ford Visteon Workers occupation and picket April/May 2009 - the role and activities of the Enfield Support Group

The Ford Visteon Workers (Enfield) Support Group (SG) was formed to give solidarity and support to the Enfield Ford Visteon workers who first occupied, then picketed their factory for six weeks in April/May 2009. A few members of the support group have now put together some ideas and thoughts in this new pamphlet. It is intended as a record of the support group, to look at its effectiveness and to be of use as a tool for future workers’ support groups. For discussion of the dispute itself, see references at the end of the pamphlet.

Link: The Role & Activities of the Support Group (943KB PDF)

Postal workers, including all those in Haringey, are defending their wages and conditions, defending the Post Office as a public service against privatisation, and defending the right of workers to organise in the face of management bullying and efforts to break the Union. Royal Mail, the Government and most of the media were on the offensive against postal workers despite enormous public support for the strikers. This has provoked a national strike, which postal workers by a massive majority voted to back.