Ireland: Union steward sacked for wearing a union badge
Labourstart
Many trade unionists around the world will remember the Dunnes
Stores Strike against Apartheid which ran for almost three years
from June 1984 to April 1987. In the face of an intransigent
employer, the union eventually persuaded the Irish government of
the day to implement economic sanctions against the old
Apartheid regime in South Africa. According to Mandate Trade
Union, Dunnes Stores are at it again.
This time the raging, anti-union Irish retailer (the "Wal-Mart
of Ireland") has achieved a new low in union-bashing by sacking
shop steward Joanne Delaney in November 2005 for wearing her
union badge on her uniform. With more than four years service in
the Ashleaf store in Crumlin on the south side of Dublin, the 22
year-old union member was elected shop steward by her
fellow-members and says she is proud to be a trade union
activist and a Mandate member.
Before sacking Joanne! , Dunnes refused to attend a meeting with
her because she was accompanied by her union Organiser.
Please communicate your disgust at the behaviour of Dunnes Stores by sending a protest message to Mr. Frank Dunne, the mangaging director of Dunnes, demanding her reinstatement.
Click on the link below
https://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=66
Jan 2006
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