Alex McGuigan, a Belfast based member of the Industrial Workers of the World, is currently off work due to stress related illness.

He is willing to return to work, but the company he works for are currently preventing him from doing so. Unfortunately, they have also stopped his sick pay, which means that he is being prevented from earning a living.

Alex needs our urgent support to get his employers to continue providing him with sick pay.

He works for a Housing Association called Lee Hestia in Belfast, which is owned by Novas in Liverpool.

Alex says that "the reality of working for Novas, a self proclaimed "charitable organisation", is a far cry from their mission statement which stresses "empowering people". It's a joke, I've worked for them for three years and they treat workers like dirt."

Please contact Novas to urge them to reinstate Alex's sick pay. Don't let him fight alone.

Write to: Mary Connolly, Novas, Chancery House, Paradise Street, Liverpool. UK.

e-mail:  policy@novas.org

phone: 0870 9019701