BURSLEM/area/region to be balloted over 12 suspensions

[allenleighton]

should organise a national 24 hour walk out on 21 december, busiest day of the year.

[norbet colon]

Just to clear up on a couple of the posts. On the suspension letters the accusations were;
1 Exclusion and/or verbal harrassment of a colleague. normally you might be thinking that could be anyone who doesn't speak to strike breakers BUT WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY. when the 12 asked who they were supposed to have harrassed or excluded the interveiwer said he didn't know. also they asked was it exclusion or are they supposed to have said something again the interviewer said he didn't know.

2. Encouraging colleagues not to co-operate with the management. doh! we are on F@@king strike nobody needs encouragement they are all pissed off. we returned an 88% yes for strike action

3. For the 3 reps only. Miss use of a CWU position. when the reps asked HOW? the standard answer came back from the interveiwer, I don't know.

In several of the interviews the person ,quite rightly, apologised to the lads on suspension for his lack of details to question them with.
After their interviews (by several weeks) they then went into Burslem DO and interviewed about half the staff to try and get a case together. It is no surprise that they also interviewed about 10 managers who all slagged off the 12 which they are now deciding to use as evidence to back up the suspensions by impying that they are also work colleagues.

The charges are not surprisinglyand typically vague & obscure. Bit of a lack of joined up thinking from Senior Management .Obvious siege mentality management -usual RM?

The suspicous issue is that everything has been done after long delay & at the 11th hour. Any Employment Solictor could draw a adverse inference from that in a ET .

It's a long story in a ex nationalised industry , involving threatened with bare state minimum notice on compulsory redundancy , resettlement & transfer to another job and taking them to IT for constructive dismissal but I've had "Hostility to management -whoose calling whom hostile ? & poor attitude to "colleagues" nonsensicial charges ( the brainwashed idiot of a manager ) when I worked on my own. It would be laughable if it wasn't so serious just like the Burslem trumped up charges direct from Old St .


Before I get jumped on , it might have been better if the CWU just took RM to court like the GMB with ASDA as their arrogance can be their achilles heel especially in thinking they can prove to a supposedly criminal standard beyond all reasonable proof , instead of the lesser standard of bounds of probabilities , but that's their problem.

It'd be pretty easy for any employment solictor to prosecute or nail RM in ET . They'd probably appeal to weaken the union financially with extended litigation .

The idea then , was to soften up & knock the stuffing out of people for privitisation , nice to see Royal Mail are only up to 20 years behind the times .