Why wait til May Day!?

Workers matter. We are the ones who sweat in your factories to bring you cheap plastic, we wait on you, we cook you your food and pour your drinks, we process your foods and pick your crops, we entertain you and clean your mess when you are done. We also pay your rent for run-down houses, we pay your taxes for your abuse and we pay your fees for the "right" to earn barely enough to live.

We are angry. We are angry when you take our wages for nothing more than finding us work, we are angry when you send us to scab on other workers who struggle as we do, we are angry that you exploit the fact that we may not know you language or don't know our rights, we are angry that when we take a stand you try to make us disappear.

We are angry and we can't wait. Why wait til May Day when the enemies of our class earn off our sweat every single day? Why wait til May Day when its easier to keep your head down and suffer than stand up for your rights? Why wait til May Day? Take Action Now!

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Manpower Inc., the international temping agency, has over 50 years experience in the field of job temping: 50 years to hone their skills of exploiting poor people, paying low wages and providing little or no job security. They're known for systematically refusing to increase wages for their workers – sometimes for 4 years at a time. They provide poor sickness, maternity and pension provision, too, and allow their staff fewer holidays than full time workers have.

In Sheffield, Manpower hire casual workers to work in BT call centres. They pay the staff that they hire 10% less than the market rate, leave them on temporary contracts for months at a time and systematically fire people with little or no recourse for industrial action because of the poor contracts.

And is if that wasn't enough, they not only exploit their own casual workers, they also hire temp workers to scab on other people's jobs, too, pitting working-class people against each other.

Last year, when Post Office workers went on strike against longer hours for less pay, it was Manpower who stepped in. They paid temporary workers to scab on other workers across the country, but many temp workers resisted, refusing to cross picket lines.


We aren't waiting til May Day. It's time to stop them now! Shut Down Manpower and temping agencies like them - 1st November 2008


Sheffield Anarchist Federation is calling for working class activists to take action against the international temping agency Manpower on the 1st November 2008,

Contact  sheffield@af-north.org for more details.