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1 May 2013
On 3 May, after nearly six years of a tortuous fight with the Unison bureaucracy, an employment tribunal remedy hearing is to be held...
3 March 2011
Unison witch-hunt: Reinstate the Four!
Four Socialist Party members, unjustly suspended from office by Unison, have won a major victory at an employment tribunal...
23 February 2011
Council workers face pay freeze
Local government employers are imposing another year's pay freeze on local authority workers. They are also saying they can't afford to give the paltry £250 one-off payment for public sector workers...
Unions protest at Hackney town hall, photo The Socialist
4 February 2011
Hackney Unison condemns union witch-hunt and calls on Labour councils to set 'needs budgets'
A rapturous cheer rang round the crowded meeting hall of over 250 trade unionists at the Hackney Unison AGM on Wednesday 2 February, as the secretary announced the ET victory of the four Socialist Party members wrongfully barred from holding office in Unison
28 January 2011
Britain's biggest public sector union found guilty in court
Witch-hunt ruled illegal: UNISON's leadership has spent three years and tens of thousands of pounds witch-hunting some of its most effective fighters. Today an Employment Tribunal has ruled that campaign of bullying to be unlawful
10 March 2010
Fight the cuts, not union members
Dawn raids on Unison branch offices: Fifteen unelected Unison trade union officials raided the Unison offices in Bromley and Greenwich in south London and the Tenant Services Authority in central London in the early morning of Friday 5 March, writes Paula Mitchell, London Socialist Party secretary.
5 March 2010
Urgent: Dawn raids on Unison offices!
Defend the four newsletter: Following the mitigation hearings Glenn Kelly (Bromely), Suzanne Muna (Housing Association), Onay Kasab (Greenwich) and Brian Debus (Hackney) have all been banned from holding any office in Unison...
20 January 2010
Angry reaction to Unison witch-hunt
Four Socialist Party members who are members of Unison, Brian Debus, Glenn Kelly, Suzanne Muna and Onay Kasab, are being witch-hunted by their own union...
Glenn Kelly addresses a lobby of Unison HQ against his three year ban, photo Alison Hill
13 January 2010
Unison witch-hunt: Shock exposures at Employment Tribunal
Between 15 and 18 December 2009, the case of four Unison branch officers under threat of suspension from office reached its dramatic conclusion at an employment tribunal, a Unison member writes.
9 December 2009
Fight the political witch-hunt in Unison
AS PREVIOUSLY reported, four London Unison activists and Socialist Party members are facing a ban from holding office in Unison for three to five years...
25 November 2009
Unison has been hearing the appeals of four Socialist Party members and Unison activists who face bans from union office for up to five years in a vicious witch-hunt orchestrated by the Unison bureaucracy...
Brian Debus (centre) with supporters outside the latest Unison disciplinary hearing, photo Alison Hill
11 November 2009
Unison witch-hunt: Defend the Four campaign gets a boost
Four Socialist Party members - Onay Kasab, Glenn Kelly, Brian Debus and Suzanne Muna - are facing bans from holding office in Unison, ranging from three to five years. This was as a result of a leaflet distributed at Unison conference over two years ago!
9 September 2009
Witch-hunted Unison member given extra charge
AFTER 28 months of stress and eleven days of hearings costing over £50,000 - for having the temerity to challenge the decisions of Unison's standing orders committee - Hackney Unison chair, Brian Debus, was banned from holding office in the union for five years...
Brian Debus (centre) with supporters outside the latest Unison disciplinary hearing, photo Alison Hill
26 August 2009
Unison witch-hunt/employment tribunal: The truth is coming out
As we reported in the last issue, four Socialist Party members have been banned from holding office in Unison for three to five years by a Unison disciplinary committee.
This follows the production of a leaflet at the 2007 Unison conference which was said to cause "racist offence" because it displayed the well-known cartoon of the 'three wise monkeys'.
Glen Kelly addresses lobby of Unison HQ to protest against banning from office of Socialist Party members, photo Alison Hill
12 August 2009
Protests flood in against Unison witch-hunt
Four Socialist Party members and Unison activists were declared guilty on trumped-up charges by a Unison disciplinary committee...
Unison conference 2009: Brian Debus, Onay Kasab and Glenn Kelly, photo Paul Mattsson
29 July 2009
Unison witch-hunt: Defend the Unison Four!
Scandalously a Unison disciplinary committee has banned four Socialist Party members from holding office for periods from three to five years...
27 July 2009
Outrageous "racism" charge leads to union ban
Press release: Four members of the public sector union Unison were last week banned from holding positions in their union following two years of investigations and hearings...
21 July 2009
Unison witch-hunt verdict causes outrage amongst trade unionists
Editorial: On 16 July, after two long years of tortuous investigations and hearings, Unison's kangaroo court declared four members of the Socialist Party guilty...
Demonstration outside Unison HQ against witchhunt of four unison members, photo Paul Mattsson
18 July 2009
Defend the Four: Protest at the Unison witch-hunt
Four Socialist Party members under attack from the Unison leadership have been found "guilty" of two charges - one that they produced a leaflet at the annual conference of Unison in 2007 which questioned why the Standing Orders Committee had ruled out key motions from being debated...
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