What Tories want

News reaches hangbitch that Hammersmith and Fulham's Tory council has derecognised H&F Unison branch secretary Noreen Morris and two other branch officers.

These are most unpleasant times. 

The derecognition is punishment for a post that appeared on the H&F Unison blog last year. The post (rightly) slagged off several overpaid management sycophants who had helped rush through plans to shift the council contact centre to Rochdale. Management insisted that the union branch turn the post author in. The union branch told management it was unable to comply.

Now, Hammersmith and Fulham Unison has effectively lost its branch secretary and two of its best officers - at a time when H&F jobs and public services are being annihilated by the Conservatives, too.

And what is Unison's regional office doing to help its beleaguered branch comrades? Is it offering its considerable legal and financial resources to help these three officers mount a defence against this most wretched of Tory councils?

Is it hell. It has sent in a couple of regional officers to negotiate on employee matters directly with management, circumnavigating the branch.  

More soon.