No Sweat speaker meeting Monday! | Feb 10th 2008
Mike Treen of the Unite union (New Zealand), organiser of the first successful strike of low-paid and vulnerable workers in Starbucks, is currently on a week-long speaking tour of Britain organised by No Sweat. His first meeting is here in Oxford, at 1pm tomorrow (Monday) in Lecture Room 23, Balliol College, Broad Street, organised in conjunction with the Oxford University Living Wage Campaign.
Mike is by all accounts a fascinating and inspiring speaker, and I hope lots of people will turn up and make a good impression on a comrade who has, after all, come half-way round the world! There will also be information on the campaign for a living wage in the university and in the city of Oxford, and how to get involved here in the sort of fight Mike and the Starbucks workers have waged so sucessfully in New Zealand.
More on the Unite (NZ) “Supersize My Pay” campaign here.
