British Gas workers to strike against bullying bosses

GMB members working for British Gas have voted resoundingly (81% in favour) to strike against bullying bosses.

Unions accuse Crown of "aggressive" approach to staff

From Packaging News.

Trade unions in the UK and North America have accused metal packaging giant Crown of "aggressive behaviour" towards its staff.

Unite the Union in the UK and the US-based United Steelworkers revealed yesterday that they have written to Crown Holdings chief executive John Conway to, in their words, "challenge the company's aggressive behaviour towards some of its employees around the world".

Why would you trust management when they treat our staff like this?

From Tubeworker

Elaine Holness is the RMT rep on Waterloo Group. London Underground have stood her down on allegations of racial harassment because she, a black woman, gave evidence against her white male manager in an employment tribunal! London Underground management are inventing a whole new concept of justice to suit their own ends. LUL is trying to silence reps from speaking out against the company. They are saying that even evidence in court can be used as a disciplinary matter!

Unison's "Bully Busters" campaign

Unison, the public sector union, recently launched a “Bully Busters” campaign. We would question the launch of such a campaign in conjunction with Company magazine and we would disagree strongly with Unison's focus on winning compensation for workers who've quit their job as a result of bullying. We believe that bullying bosses should be fought collectively in the workplace. However, the press statements accompanying Unison's campaign launch provide useful case studies of bullying as it is suffered by workers on the shop-floor.