MIGRANT WALKOUT: Mass protest planned across Britain to demonstrate ‘contribution’ to UK
MIGRANTS will be staging a mass protest across Britain by stopping work for the day.
By HELENE PERKINS
Express.co.uk
Sat, Feb 4, 2017
Tool-carrying workers will be joined by those wearing their NHS uniforms and placard-waving migrants as part of the walk-out being staged by the OneDayWithoutUs campaign.
The wave of protest will be taking place right across the country on February 20.
It may not be an official strike but many people are planning to shut up shop or stage lunch break rallies to underline the contribution being made by the migrant workforce, before Britain triggers Article 50.
Campaigners will link arms and upload a series of pictures to social media at 1pm on the “national day of action” under the hashtag #1DayWithoutUs.
Magdalena Williams, 68, a former Hungarian refugee whose parents fled to escape Communism, said she felt unwelcome after four decades in Britain.
Event organiser Ms Williams, who has recently retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, after starting her career as a civil servant teaching Hungarian and German to diplomats, said: “Many migrant workers don’t work in jobs with a union, so we are organising this symbolic alternative.
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