Ex cabin crew takes Unite to Tribunal
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Ex cabin crew takes Unite to Tribunal
Eighteen years after the event the fallout from the BA cabin crew strike continues.
This article appeared in today's Mail. Sally was a CC89 Rep at the time.
UNITE CHIEF EMBROILED IN BULLYING ROW
Unite leader Len McCluskey has become embroiled in a claim against his trade union for bullying and sexual harassment.
As part of a constructive dismissal claim under investigation by an employment tribunal, former union official Sally Nailard has accused the Unite general secretary of calling her a ‘scab’. The 50-year-old former regional officer based at Heathrow is seeking undisclosed compensation.
The case lifts the lid on alleged ‘discrimination, misogyny and bullying’ at the hard-Left union. The chairman of the employment tribunal in Watford, Isabel Manley, described the case as a ‘sad and sorry tale’. More than half of Labour candidates in its 106 target seats are linked to Unite.
Mr McCluskey is one of several union officials cited in Miss Nailard’s claim.
She resigned from her £47,000 position last August, following an alleged 18-month campaign of bullying and harassment. Her evidence submitted to the tribunal, seen by the Independent, relates to a copy of an interview she gave to Sky News in 1997 after a cabin crew strike which she didn’t take part in. Her evidence states: ‘If I was such a “scab” as Len McCluskey later said, I would have volunteered to operate as crew over the strike.’
The tribunal continues.
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This article appeared in today's Mail. Sally was a CC89 Rep at the time.
UNITE CHIEF EMBROILED IN BULLYING ROW
Unite leader Len McCluskey has become embroiled in a claim against his trade union for bullying and sexual harassment.
As part of a constructive dismissal claim under investigation by an employment tribunal, former union official Sally Nailard has accused the Unite general secretary of calling her a ‘scab’. The 50-year-old former regional officer based at Heathrow is seeking undisclosed compensation.
The case lifts the lid on alleged ‘discrimination, misogyny and bullying’ at the hard-Left union. The chairman of the employment tribunal in Watford, Isabel Manley, described the case as a ‘sad and sorry tale’. More than half of Labour candidates in its 106 target seats are linked to Unite.
Mr McCluskey is one of several union officials cited in Miss Nailard’s claim.
She resigned from her £47,000 position last August, following an alleged 18-month campaign of bullying and harassment. Her evidence submitted to the tribunal, seen by the Independent, relates to a copy of an interview she gave to Sky News in 1997 after a cabin crew strike which she didn’t take part in. Her evidence states: ‘If I was such a “scab” as Len McCluskey later said, I would have volunteered to operate as crew over the strike.’
The tribunal continues.
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