Workers' Liberty

Network Rail has sacked long-standing RMT activist Albert Lingard in an act of blatant victimisation.

A call is on circulation in France to support Chirino's reinstatement in the oil public sector company PDVSA.

Around 600 postalworkers and other trade unionists took part in a national demonstration called by the Communication Workers’ Union in Stoke on 19 January.

Canary Wharf: London Underground management have sacked two Canary Wharf Station Supervisors over some missing KitKats!

London Underground has sacked a worker at London Bridge over an alleged incident with a customer. But the company’s only “evidence” against Gyles is the say-so of a different customer who admitted there was no violence involved, but speculated that there might have been! RMT is balloting members for industrial action. Vote Yes! More: www.workersliberty.org/tube.

Workers in Manchester’s Community and Mental Health Services, who struck last year against the victimisation and sacking of their Unison branch chair, SWP member Karen Reissman, have now returned to work — but are building a political campaign for her reinstatement.

Karen Reissmann has lost her appeal against being sacked. No grounds were given and Karen was told she would be informed in writing. This was widely expected as those hearing the appeal were involved in the Mental Health Trust Karen worked for and were implicated in the original decision to sack her.

Over a thousand people braved the cold and the rain to support of victimised trade union activist Karen Reissman in Manchester on 24 November. The majority demonstrating were fellow workers, who remain on strike to support Karen as well as and patients and their families who support this important dispute.

Over a thousand people braved the cold and the rain to come out in support of victimised trade union activist Karen Reissman in Manchester on 24 November. The majority were her fellow workers, who are on strike to support Karen, and patients and their families who are also in support of this important dispute.

The strike to get sacked UNISON steward Karen Reissmann reinstated is continuing. Karen was sacked for speaking out against cuts.

Demonstrate! From: Peace Gardens, Piccadilly, Manchester. 24 November at 1 pm.

Manchester Mental Health Unison has voted to strike indefinitely after the announcement that its chair, SWP member Karen Reissman, is being sacked - supposedly for disciplinary reasons, but in fact because of her vocal opposition to cuts in mental health provision.

On Monday 5 November psychiatric nurse and chair of the Manchester Community and Mental Health branch of UNISON, Karen Reissmann, was sacked by the local mental health trust. Karen’s crime was to have spoken out publicly as a trade unionist against a reorganisation of mental health services that would have led to cuts.

Manchester mental health workers have held a second three day strike to protest against the victimisation of their UNISON steward, Karen Reissmann.

Metronet

By an RMT member

By Mike Rowley

Several hundred posties at Oxford sorting office got back to work on Monday to find that Steve Gill, a Post Office driver and one of their union reps, had been suspended from work without charge by the management.

35 teachers at Haggerston School in Hackney face disciplinary action for refusing to cross a Unite!/T&G picket line of striking school meals workers. You can read all about it on Hackney TUC's website. Below is an email I have just sent to the head teacher.

Karen Reissmann, a nurse for 25 years and an elected member of Unison’s national health executive, was suspended on Friday, 15 June. T ut-patient consultation and the hospital.

A leaflet from her Unison branch explains:

Shop steward and long-standing union activist Antony Czubkowski has been sacked by energy firm E.ON, in reaction to his complaint about being subjected to a verbal attack by his boss.

Antony has for the last 18 years been a leading Amicus activist, and in July 2006 convened a meeting for the five unions operating in E.ON. The manager, with a long record of anti-union and bullying behaviour, tried to sneak into the back of the meeting — Antony politely asked him to leave.

London protest, in solidarity with JJB workers and against the sacking of Chris Riley, organised by No Sweat - meet 1pm, Sunday 10 December 2006, outside JJB Sports, 8 The Broadway West, 12 Shopping Centre, London W12 8PP.

In late August two drivers on the Tube’s Jubilee line, Raj Nathvani and Les Bruty, faced the sack over small performance errors which would normally result at most in a slap on the wrist and extra training.

A campaign has been launched to defend Robin Sivapalan, a London classroom assistant suspended for organising an anti-Blair protest at his school. Please sign the following statement of support for Robin.

The Daily Mirror has launched a pathetic witch-hunt against public sector workers and against union reps. And apparently it does not see the irony in lambasting an engineer for being "overpaid" on the same front page that carries pictures of the genuinely and obscenely overpaid celebs who populated the National Television Awards.

On 7 September, Tony Blair and Education Secretary Alan Johnson visited Quinton Kynaston school in North London to announce the rolling out of their "trust schools" programme - including to QK itself.

The RMT won a great victory last month by forcing management to re-instate Raj Nathvani and Les Bruty, Jubilee Line drivers who faced the sack in a ridiculously heavy-handed bid to attack the union

This union notes

1. The recent visit by Tony Blair to Quintin Kynaston school in North London in the midst of speculation over his leadership of the Labour Party and future as Prime Minister.
2. The growing opposition to government policy on trust schools, privatisation and war in Iraq and Lebanon.

Thursday September 7 2006

Many of you will be aware that Prime Minister Tony Blair and Education Secretary Alan Johnson are visiting our school today. They are here to celebrate their new agenda for education in England. QK school will be at the forefront of the first wave of 20 or 30 schools to be removed from local democratic control and handed over to big business and religious organisations as "Trust Schools" - as outlined in the recently passed Education and Inspections Bill 2006.

Some 30 Amicus members lobbied the March meeting of the Amicus National Executive Council (NEC) in protest at the sacking of three Amicus employees: Des Heemskerk, Jimmy Warne and Cathie Willis. The three were suspended from their jobs in Amicus in mid-September of last year. All three are leading members of “Amicus Unity Gazette”, the broad left grouping in Amicus.

Briefly... Austrian contractors, SFL, supply cheap Hungarian labour to power station desulphurization construction project.

UNISON and NUJ members in the Press and Publicity department of Tower Hamlets Council took strike action on Monday 28 November in defence of Eileen Short, who has been threatened with losing her job as a result of restructuring.