The first planned strike day by staff working for the TSSA union will go ahead on Tuesday after mediation talks turned to farce, with the staff’s GMB union reps accusing TSSA general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust of approaching the talks without good faith and of failing to engage with staff’s concerns.
Staff are striking over what they say is renewed abuse and bullying – Eslamdoust’s predecessor as general secretary was sacked after a huge scandal of bullying and sexual harassment by senior management, and workers say the situation, which Eslamdoust was supposed to fix, has deteriorated again. Now an update from the workers’ union reps updates them of the failure of the talks:
Eslamdoust, who was recommended to members by the union’s executive despite what appears to be a complete lack of relevant experience, wrote a bizarre article for the Guardian in which she accused the GMB union of attempting to bully her so it could take over the TSSA and distract from its own renewed sexual harassment scandal, and tried to blame others for her failure to take meaningful action to implement the Kennedy Report’s recommendations.
She then followed up her attack on the GMB by emailing all TSSA member branches with an astonishing assault branding the union’s workers as greedy and lazy, and treating the GMB union as if it, and not the unhappiness of TSSA staff, was the driver of the impending strike action for which more than 93% of staff voted last week.
Such is the anger among members at the situation that earlier this month the TSSA’s branch for members working in Network Rail in South London passed a unanimous motion of no confidence in Eslamdoust and the union’s president Melissa Heywood.
GMB reps among TSSA staff have accused Eslamdoust and her team of not informing them that they had approached ACAS, and of bypassing them to try to negotiate the dispute with GMB general secretary Gary Smith instead of engaging with workers and their representatives.
The workers’ first strikes will take place this week on Tuesday 30 April and then on 4 June, including pickets of TSSA offices.
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I’m surprised that there are still no actual details about the specific issues that lay at the heart of this dispute.
I see you are still digging that hole Billy.
There is a simple reason why you will not find anywhere any specific details on the cases of bullying and intimidation during the process of negotiation and/or dispute resolution.
It is a reason anyone with a working and operational brain cell understands – which, judging by your public position on this matter (yet again) clearly rules you out Billy.
Specifically it’s called the Data Protection Act. You might want to look it up and actually learn something by educating yourself – if its ever possible to educate pork.
And in generic terms such practices of withholding such details have been part and parcel of due process procedures not just for decades but centuries in this Country.
You really are continuing to make a public ass of yourself and a spectacle of ridicule with your ignorant and arrogant rantings.
But keep digging kid. Because the more you dig the less influence you are having.
No,no,no,no,no,no,no, David.
Just NO
You see, unless we’re fully informed of everything under the sun, we simply cannot pass judgement.
This includes such
trivialitiesrelevances as the number of teeth the interested parties have; the way they hang their bogroll on the holder; whether they are able to recite from memory Barnstoneworth United’s first team (1925-26 season) and what brand and type of laundry detergent they use. (Not an exhaustive list, I’m certain)Anything from the complainant(s) that doesn’t conform in the least renders the whole issue null & void, and so the status quo must be maintained.
Unless you are keef, or a keefist, you are not allowed to withhold information, data protection or not.
You MUST go full Jerry Springer. It’s the rules, apparently 🙄
Dave – Could you please explain how the provisions contained within GDPR prevent these staff from stating what the issues are that lie at the heart of their dispute with their employers.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents
Billy, once again you are misrepresenting what has been said.
Nowhere in the post above at 09:39 am 28/04/2024 is there even a hint that the:
“GDPR prevent[s] these staff from stating what the issues are that lie at the heart of their dispute with their employers.”
What is stated clearly enough for even a blind man on a galloping horse – but obviously not for a bad faith emotional cripple such as yourself – is the following:
“There is a simple reason why you will not find anywhere any specific details on the cases of bullying and intimidation DURING THE PROCESS OF NEGOTIATION AND/OR DISPUTE RESOLUTION.”
Mirroring your own constant demands for others to provide details, tell us Billy, just which bit of the GDPR provisions relating to the reporting of specific details of individual cases during the process of negotiation and dispute resolution are you having problems with?
To put it another way, would you feel comfortable having your personal details in regards to such complaints being placed in the public domain whilst the process is still underway. Particularly when it has reached the point of a dispute?
You really need to start thinking things through in an objective way rather than this constant knee jerk emotionalism.
Dave – Do you feel better now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I think resumed abuse and bullying were mere mentioned. Can’t be sure- palliative care is wearing- but the vote for action was overwhelming. Could be wrong, often am but there could be a link.
And nobody’s surprised you’ve come out with a typically ignorant comment -AGAIN.
“actual details”
“specific issues”
Jesus H Corbett; right above your usual gobshitery there’s links to THREE articles regarding the beef with eslamdoust, Not to mention the plethora of tags
Try clicking on them, ignoranus.
Toffee – Really?
All I have seen to date on these pages is very vague generalities which could mean anything or nothing.
Can you tell me precisely what the dispute is about, perhaps you could even give some examples🤔?
Well I suppose they’ve walked out just for shits & giggles, have they?
Your imbecilic obsession with the minutiae; the crossing of every “t” and dotting of every “I” shows you up to be the aberration and murder-inducing affront to sensibility that you truly are.
Toffee – Who knows, they are keeping it a secret why they ate in dispute?
Ooops
ateareWhy did keef smarmer keep his donors secret?
Why won’t rayner release her tax advice/return(s)?
Ok for them to do that, innit? Just wind your neck in, plums.
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/04/28/tssa-union-staff-strike-to-go-ahead-this-week-after-reps-accuse-eslamdoust-of-bad-faith/#comment-254530
They are in dispute over bullying and intimidation. That is all you need to know. No one involved in this dispute is under any obligation to provide strangers such as yourself who they do not know with their specific details concerning their case whilst the complaints and the dispute arising from those complaints remains extant.
It really is long past time that you got over yourself Billy.
Dave – I have not claimed that anyone involved in this dispute is under any obligation to me or anybody else.
It would just be nice to know more.
Then WHY mention that you’re: “surprised that there are no actual details about the specific issues that lay at the heart of this dispute” if nobody’s under obligation to indulge you?
Blert.
Toffee – Surprise,surprise, because I was surprised that there are no actual details about the specific issues that lay at the heart of this dispute. Nothing more nothing less. 😕