Well his tribunal starts tomorrow at Reading, which by his own admission is unlikely to find in his favour;
I have been told that the result won't be announced at the end of the tribunal. When all this happened I was confident that a tribunal would right the wrong but having seen how the courts have treated trade union matters over the last 12 months and also seem the time, effort and expense BA and their legal team has invested in my case I am under no illusions of what I am up against.
So that's around £20,000 of his members money flushed down the toilet in fighting an unwinnable ET. Surely if you fail to turn up to work for the 5th or 6th time and then brag about it on your own union forum you can hardly be surprised that you're let go by your employer. Why would anyone even try and defend this sort of gross misconduct? He even admitted he spent the time going through BASSA's corrupted membership database so they could re-ballot after the 12 days of Christmas fiasco. The tribunal will love that.
And how goes the other "tidal wave" of ETs we were promised from the union barons? No word of the porn king and his case nor the other high profile "miscarriages of justice" with all these "trumped up charges". Rumour has it that almost all the others stand less than a 50% chance of success so will not be funded by Unite. Maybe just maybe these militants deserved to be dismissed then?
As for turning up and supporting that is great but I am anxious not to turn this into a show of strength or a politcal battle. I would rather the judges took an impartial view without being influenced because I do still genuinely believe if justice is on my side I have a chance.
A chance? Two hopes and one of them's called Bob mate.
Sounds to me like he's nervous about what his fan club may hear in court. My guess is this wouldn't have even gone to an ET if Dunc wasn't the branch secretary. So everyone's equal on this farm but obviously some are more equal than others. Best keep em in the dark hey Dunc, it's worked so far.
So £20,000 wasted this month on a tribunal he was never going to win.
20% of £150k a month to run the branch which amounts to
£30,000 per month. That's a lot of £100 per days for his reps to cary out "office duties" except of course those reps are not being derostered so can't possibly be pocketing those payments. Can they?
Nice little earner this union business isn't it? No wonder he's so impassioned and so "dedicated" to his members. Those building projects don't pay for themselves.
And this cult of personality- BASSA God- is running the dispute. Good grief.
Good old fashioned unionists a la multi millionaire Scargill.
