Bettygirl
I'm sure you are right. But that seems even curiouser to me.
1.Why would members of a branch of a Union that gets 1.5 million plus annually, and has the backing of UNITE, resort to finding their own legal funds?
2.For costs directly related to action taken at the behest of and with encouragement from its leadership?
3.Which legal cases are being funded by the Union?
All very bloomin' strange if you ask me. The only rational explanation is that Crewdefence is set up to fund those legal costs that the Union will not stump up for because the cases are too weak. In which case why say it is to support the 'official union representation', because it isn't! The lack of clarity about who they are and what they do and how and why leaves loads of questions about Crewdefence.
That's all.