Free speech for legal rights at work?
John Robertson | 11.12.2007 19:15
A proposed legal insurance scheme has been blocked from Indymedia, dispite being specifically set-up for people who suffer poor service from trades unions and need extra protection, or people who are not members.
The text which caused offence may be that below:
Sadly the case is not unusual. The Bully Online web site
[
http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/worbal.htm]
names failure of trades union support as the number one complaint of people contacting it and other employee's charities. As many complaints to bullying helplines are about serial bullies, the statistic suggests that informal, preventative action is lacking in large unions as well as formal legal help.
Unions are hard to sue for bad service as most of them lack a clear contract with members, but there are cases such as Joanne Sherry suing the National Union of Teachers successfully for return of her union dues over a long career
[ http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?c=190&id=331579]
A comment was added to the news artical calling it "right wing".
Sadly the case is not unusual. The Bully Online web site
[
http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/worbal.htm] names failure of trades union support as the number one complaint of people contacting it and other employee's charities. As many complaints to bullying helplines are about serial bullies, the statistic suggests that informal, preventative action is lacking in large unions as well as formal legal help.
Unions are hard to sue for bad service as most of them lack a clear contract with members, but there are cases such as Joanne Sherry suing the National Union of Teachers successfully for return of her union dues over a long career
[
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?c=190&id=331579] A comment was added to the news artical calling it "right wing".
John Robertson
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