Jerry is just back from a pretty successful tour of Ireland where he spoke in Belfast, Newry, Dublin and Dungannon. You can see the video of his Belfast meeting here.

He’s holding a London rally.

Monday, 11 October, Indian YMCA

41 Fitzroy Square, 7.30 pm

(nearest tube Warren Street)

Speakers

• Jerry Hicks, Unite General Secretary candidate
• Ken Loach, Director,

The following in a personal capacity:

• Steve Hedley (RMT)
• Ray Morell, (Unite Convenor Lucas Aerospace Luton)
• Judith Atkinson, (NHS, Unite)
• Alberto Durango, (Unite Justice for Cleaners branch and Latin American Workers Association)
• Steve Kelly, (Unite Construction Branch)
• Gerry Downing, (Unite Cricklewood buses)
• Tushar Sarkar, (Hounslow-Feltham Unite branch committee member)
• Chair: Billy Young, (Unite Kilburn Branch)

Jerry says:

“We need to instil confidence in members so they have the courage to fight, within the law preferably. But if the circumstances dictate other-wise we should be prepared to confront the anti-union laws. When someone fights back, the union has to put everything behind them to win a victory for the class as a whole.

When a group of workers walk out, or better still sit-in and occupy, they need to know that their union will back them—not repudiate them. The other people standing are all senior officials who, in my view, are part of the problem, not the solution”.

Members deserve a rank and file candidate. There are two objectives: One is to get the union back into the hands and control of the members. The second is to bring together a group of people in the union to be the voice of opposition. This should not be an electoral machine but a fighting group of people.

Len McCluskey is a left union bureaucrat, even his most enthusiastic supporters have to go back 25 years to find the last time he fought for the workers. Len is a career bureaucrat, one of the elites, his militancy is for election purposes only. The right-winger Les Bayliss, an open and genuine bosses man has no chance of getting elected.

We deserve better!

Elect a fighter to fight these Tory-Lib-Dem attacks on all of us.

Jerry Hicks will take only an average worker’s wage.