On Thursday there will be another strike by UNISON members in Newham, East London over the sacking by the Council of their branch Chair, Michael Gavan.
Amazingly Michael was dismissed for representing his trade union members in disciplinary hearings (and in doing so “not acting in the best interests of the Council”) and convening a stewards meeting over privatisation without permission.
The branch is asking for supporters to join the picket lines before work on Thursday. There will also be a lunchtime rally in the Hartley Centre, next to the Bingo Hall in 267 Barking Road, E6.
There is also a rally at the House of Commons tomorrow (Tuesday) evening to support Michael, as well as the Unison strikers at Fremantle, Barnet, and Karen Reissman, sacked Unison activist from Manchester. This is at 7.00 p.m. in Committee Room 9, House of Commons (Westminster tube). If you're going, allow time to get through the House of Commons security
More information from the Newham branch website - www.newhamunison.com or telephone 020 8555-9351.
6 comments:
Hope to see you at the Lobby tonight.
Hi Andrew
Its the LBTH UNISON function tonight - see you on picket line on Thursday.
fair enough, The president was there which was good. Will do best for thurday but got to try and stop a steward being sacked
Great to hear that Norma was at rally, good luck with hearing on Thursday!
Is it a right for employees who happen to be shop stewards to hold union meetings whenever they like? No. Why didn't he just get permission and hold the meeting at a mutually convenient time? To bolshy for that I guess.
Hi Anon
There was a dispute over the holdings of meetings. I understand that the “meeting” itself never took place and the other non- Unison officials were not disciplined.
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