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NEWS & LETTERS,
January-February 2003
London welfare workers threatened
London--The Public and Commercial Services Union in
Britain is mobilizing to defend a member and activist being harassed by
management at a London welfare office. Chris Ford, Central and West London
Branch Secretary, is facing discharge from supervisors strictly because of his
union work. Tactics involved in the campaign against Ford and other
union activists include the surveillance of e-mails sent between union members.
The union released a letter to its members saying that management was "not
prepared to give 'a guarantee' that e-mails of a legitimate nature between union
members and their reps would be kept confidential from management." Chris has the support of his fellow workers, 850 of whom
undertook a two-day strike in November of last year to protest attacks on their
union. Work in his defense is ongoing. --Union supporter |
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