Defend civil service union rep!
By a civil servant An important battle to defend trade union rights and stop the victimisation of a trade union rep is shaping up in the Department of Work and Pensions. Charlie MacDonald is a trade union rep in the Stratford social security office in London. In the recent past complaints have been made against him, complaints which relate to incidents that occurred at the beginning of the year during a strike in the DWP. Why have these complaints only just been made? The union, the PCS, feels that they can only be the basis of a concerted attempt by management to get rid of Charlie. The...