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Glasgow leads fight for justice on jobs

The Glasgow branch delegation has now returned following ADM 2005 in Scarborough.

Glasgow branch had only one motion, which was carried overwhelmingly. Motion 118, called for a wide-ranging campaign to promote reinstatement of employees who have been unfairly dismissed. The motion was in direct response to the case of an NUJ member who had been unfairly dismissed from her sub-editing job with the Aberdeen Express with the company refusing to honour an Employment Tribunal reinstatement order.

Bernard Thompson proposed the motion with Chris Morley, who had spoken at TUC Congress 2004 on the issue, seconding for the NEC.

Chris told delegates that the decision on whether to return to work should lie with the wronged employee, rather than allowing companies to claim that the working relationship has ‘irretrievably broken down’.
 

    Motion 118

    ADM notes with concern:

  • the tiny number of Employment Tribunal cases that are granted a reinstatement order, as in the case of Eugenie Verney, compared to the amount of Applicants who initially apply for one;
  • the apparent lack of resolution shown among many tribunals to grant such orders, often on the given reason that the employment relationship has ‘irretrievably broken down’, and is simply used as a device to avoid the wider issue of worker/ management relations entirely.

    ADM therefore instructs the NEC:

  • to campaign throughout the union and elsewhere to have this grossly unfair situation rectified, as part of a wider campaign to give all workers full employment rights from day one of their employment.
Glasgow delegates were also mandated to vote in favour of a photographic organiser, following a request from our colleagues in the West of Scotland Freeelance branch. After extensive debate, the motion was defeated though delegates were assured that the upcoming appointment of an Assistant Freelance Organiser would result in extra resources being allocated to photographic issues.
11/04/05
 
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