The Socialist 9 December 2009

Bail out our jobs, not greedy bankers

Corus steel closure: 'Bail out our jobs, not greedy bankers'

Nationalise Corus Steel

Youth Fight for Jobs campaigners speak out on Corus closure

Socialist nationalisation - the only way to save manufacturing jobs and end the bank bonus scandal

Teesside steel: No trust in big business 'solutions'

End the war in Afghanistan

Climate change summit: Coming up short in Copenhagen

Free the Tamil boat people

Fight the political witch-hunt in Unison

Fast news

Youth Fight for Jobs organises demo in Barking

New Labour gift wraps Tyne and Wear Metro

Stoke Axiom workers escalate the action

Save jobs at Borders

Twinings workers fight job losses

Management bullying? Surely not...

Uniting to stop cuts at Sussex

Starting Socialist Students at a Coventry sixth form

No to student civic service

Northampton protest against student loan delays

The legacy of Charles Darwin

Solidarity with striking South African miners

Scotland: The national question and the general election

English Defence League show themselves up

Christmas 2009 donation appeal

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Management bullying? Surely not...

A dispute over workplace bullying between Glyndwr University (Wrexham) administration and University and College Union (UCU) members escalated on Monday 7 December, when management attempted to get security and police to evict Glyndwr UCU organiser Hamish Murphy from his office.

Edmund Schluessel

Police officers refused to intervene, calling the dispute a civil matter, but university security blocked UCU members from speaking with Hamish.

Bosses dismissed Murphy in October after he spoke out against administrative bullying of university staff. A decision on his appeal against dismissal has been repeatedly put off.

Murphy told The Socialist: "By sending security and calling the police, they are trying to hinder me in pursuing these [trade union] activities.

"I was stopped from seeing UCU members for over an hour whilst a security guard kept his foot in the union office door to stop me shutting it to speak privately to union members including both the branch secretary and the health and safety representative."

Glyndwr academic staff demonstrated on 2 December in support of Hamish.

Glyndwr management deny sacking Hamish for his UCU work and state he is welcome to continue it.

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