Defend the Amicus Three!
By an Amicus member Some 30 Amicus members lobbied the March meeting of the Amicus National Executive Council (NEC) in protest at the previous week’s sacking of three Amicus employees: Des Heemskerk, Jimmy Warne and Cathie Willis. The three had been suspended from their jobs in Amicus in mid-September of last year. All three are leading members of the ‘Amicus Unity Gazette’, the broad left grouping in Amicus (although it is becoming ever less broad, and ever less left as time goes by – see below). Des Heemskerk is a former Deputy Convenor at Fords. At the request of Amicus General Secretary...