Unite injunction against Belfast sacked shop stewards
May 29th, 2008
http://libcom.org/news/unite-injunction-against-belfast-sacked-shop-stewards-29052008
The Unite union has served an injunction against protesting shop stewards, threatening them with fines and imprisonment.
“Unite are trying to deny us our democratic right to peacefully protest.” – Gordon McNeill
The dispute between the sacked airport shop stewards and their union, Unite, was dramatically escalated on Tuesday afternoon.
Sacked shop steward, Gordon McNeill, who was on the thirteenth day of a hunger strike, was served with a court injunction brought by the union barring him from continuing to protest “in or at Transport House”. The injunction makes clear that if any of the three shop stewards involved in the protest, Gordon McNeill, Chris Bowyer and Madan Gupta, continue to protest they may face fines, seizure of assets and/or imprisonment.
Gordon McNeill has responded by escalating his protest from a hunger strike to a hunger and thirst strike. Gordon commented:
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