Conley report submitted to union months ago says union stuck in the 80s Earlier this month, Baroness Kennedy published a damning report on sexual harassment in the TSSA union, following a whistleblower’s allegations against senior figures and the #MeTU movement that followed, that has led to a string of resignations and suspensions among the union’s […]
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Contempt for party staff laid bare as party reveals it abused left-wing organisers in ‘constructive dismissal’ while saying their positions were no longer needed The Labour party is recruiting twenty regional organisers on the parliamentary jobs website, saying they are needed: at the forefront of the next General Election campaign, supporting constituency parties and regional […]
Labour MP and councillor deny claims they were pair named in Kennedy Report Union figures have alleged that Ilford North MP Sam Tarry and Croydon Councillor Chris Clark are the pair of TSSA employees criticised by Baroness Kennedy’s scathing report on sexual harassment in the union. Page thirteen of the report describes a conversation in […]
Jack Clarke promoted to senior role in Sharon Graham’s team without usual exec approval, despite final warning from union after complaints of bullying and threatening behaviour The husband of Unite general secretary Sharon Graham – now a senior member of her team after a promotion said to have bypassed the usual process of approval by […]
Documents show RMT’s Lynch requested talks when talks with US IBB union collapsed – and before that too, as well as in January as Skwawkbox revealed yesterday Skwawkbox revealed yesterday that the TSSA – which has been rocked this week by sexual harassment and bullying scandals yet is in merger talks with another union with […]
Letter from RMT head Mick Lynch last month offered talks but TSSA insiders say offer covered up by figures now condemned by Kennedy report on sexual harassment The scandal-hit TSSA union, whose management-backed merger with a right-wing US union fell through last year, has been in talks with another right-run union, the GMB – recently […]
Luke Chester was part of union’s ‘locus of power’ As Skwawkbox reported last night, the explosive report by Baroness Kennedy on sexual harassment and bullying within the TSSA union has already seen senior officers of the union removed or resign – and former general secretary Manuel Cortes had already ‘retired’ under a cloud last year […]
Right-wingers hammered in Socialist Health Association elections said to be aiming to disaffiliate SHA on pretext after organisation condemned Starmer and sidekick Streeting for appalling health policy The Labour right is angling to kick the Socialist Health Association (SHA) out of the party after the faction was crushed in the SHA’s internal elections – and […]
Peer’s report on investigation after allegations against Cortes and others will be delivered to management tomorrow – and will recommend ‘sweeping change’ Peer Helena Kennedy will deliver her report on sexual harassment within the TSSA to the union’s management tomorrow – and says it will make ‘very challenging reading’. An email sent out by Kennedy […]
Latest denial from ‘centrist’ who posed as Hitler raises more questions Centrist Tan Smith – known as ‘Supertanskiii’ and an avid promulgator of the antisemitism smear against the left – has hit turbulent waters in recent days after the revelation that she posted images of herself in a Hitler pose next to a man wearing […]