Wednesday 18 November 2009

Further disappointment for enemies of our Union Brotherhood


'Lancaster Unity' took great delight in pushing the vexatious complaints of Clive Potter and his gang of agents and dupes against the Solidarity Trade Union. They also republished a story by Fiona Hamilton from the Times newspaper hyping Potter and his gang and predicting doom and gloom for our Union. Curious readers of their Blog would have found no follow-up reporting the outcome of the much heralded hearing at the Certification Office, however. Why was that?


Well things didn't turn out as expected for Potter, Searchlight and 'Lancaster Unity'. In fact the position of our Union was vindicated and the complaints dismissed. You can read the full judgement here.


Nor did they report the rejection of the appeal by agents/dupes Potter, McLinden and Mullen. On 5 November 2009 a notice was sent to Potter and to the Union. It stated:-

"The appeal has been referred to his Honour Judge Peter Clark in accordance with Rule 3(7) of the Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 2004 (as amended) and in his opinion your Notice of Appeal discloses no reasonable grounds for bringing the appeal. He states:-

I can find no arguable point of law raised in the appeal. The basis of appeal is that the Complainants are unhappy with the Certification Officers' decision.

For the above reasons the learned judge considers that this Appeal has no reasonable prospect of sucess and that, in accordance with Rule 3(7), no further action will be taken on it."

The silence of 'Lancaster Unity' again speaks volumes.
Our Union will now be conducting a detailed study of this attempt to disrupt our good work. In particular the special unit which we have established will be asked to study the background and motivation of those involved and whether they have committed criminal and/or civil offences which are actionable.

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