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25 January 2012
Greenwich Unite members oppose cuts, privatisation and racism
Unite members in Greenwich, south London, were out in force for the second Saturday running on 21 January, fighting to stop the council privatising the library service, writes Onay Kasab, Greenwich Unite.
13 October 2011
Greenwich Unite criticises privatisation of welfare services
In light of recent figures on unemployment and child poverty, Greenwich Unite has slammed Greenwich council for failing to reconsider the decision to privatise and effectively kill off the Welfare Rights Service
7 September 2011
Socialist Party member Onay Kasab has been informed by the Unison leadership that his appeal against expulsion from the union has failed...
7 September 2011
NSSN lobby of the TUC: On 11 September the National Shop Stewards Network is organising a lobby of the TUC, demanding they call a one-day public sector general strike...
Youth against Racism in Europe protest against the BNP in 1993, photo by The Socialist
1 June 2011
18 years since Stephen Lawrence murder
We still need to fight racism... and cuts: Two men are now to stand trial for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager who had ambitions to become an architect but was killed in a vicious racist attack in 1993, writes Onay Kasab.
9 March 2011
Disgracefully Onay Kasab, a Unison member for 17 years, has been expelled from the union. Kaz explained to the Socialist that this follows a ban from office after a witch-hunt against him and three other Socialist Party members in Unison by the leadership.
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...
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
Onay Kasab, TUSC candidate for Greenwich and Woolwich
29 July 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist candidate for Greenwich and Woolwich in general election
28 April 2010
The Socialist Party's TUSC stall in Woolwich has now become a regular feature for shoppers. Less familiar was the Labour Party stall that made its debut appearance last week. As the TUSC candidate I wasted...
Defend the Four protest lobby against Unison outside Congress House, photo B. Severn
17 March 2010
Unison leadership's "scorched earth policy"
EIGHTY PEOPLE from Unison branches across London took part in a protest against the appalling actions of the union's leadership in the witch-hunt against four Socialist Party members.
Outside Congress House, where the London region of Unison has its offices, Unison members burned letters from the regional secretary, Linda Perks.
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...
10 February 2010
Greenwich Unison backs victimised branch secretary
THE 2010 annual meeting (AGM) of the Greenwich Unison branch has unanimously backed Onay Kasab, the witch-hunted secretary of the branch who currently faces a three-year ban from holding office in the union...
27 January 2010
Unison black members reject witch-hunt
"Unless Mr Kasab and his colleagues are punished, black Unison members can have no confidence in the union fighting racism." These were the words of the Unison national officer who acted as the prosecution in the union's case against four Socialist Party members, writes A Unison member.
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...
2 December 2009
Fighting council cuts in Greenwich
EVEN PRIME minister Gordon Brown has condemned Tory Nottinghamshire county council's savage plans to impose over £31 million of cuts, cutting 450 jobs this financial year alone and attacking staff terms and conditions and council services, writes Onay Kasab, secretary, Greenwich Unison branch (personal capacity).
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