Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
31st October 2013, 17:36
Schapps is a complete turd but what about this 'leveraging'? First I've heard of it, sounds like something the Right, especially the Daily Mail, will use another stick to batter unions in general with.
(No doubt Ed will offer some small condemnation so as not to appear too 'red').
The Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has called on Labour leader Ed Miliband to condemn tactics used by the Unite union during the Grangemouth dispute.
It follows claims by an Ineos director that a "mob" was sent by Unite to his home to intimidate him.
Unite has defended its use of so-called leverage tactics, where managers are directly targeted as part of a protest.
It said the tactics were "legal and legitimate".
And it said bad employers should have "nowhere to hide".
The Ineos director told the Daily Mail how he feared for the safety of his wife and his two young children after 30 Unite protesters turned up at his home during the school holidays.
The newspaper claimed police were called after the group, which it said was an organised Unite leverage team, approached his neighbours and told them the director was "evil".Police Scotland confirmed that officers had attended an address in Dunfermline on Friday 18 October following reports of a protest.
A spokesman said the occupants were not present and the demonstrators left before they returned.
Prime Minister David Cameron described the leverage allegations as "quite shocking" and said the claims should be properly investigated.
In his letter to Mr Miliband, Mr Shapps described the strategy as "thuggish".
He urged Mr Miliband to condemn the approach, to refuse money from Unite until those responsible were disciplined, and again called on Labour to investigate allegations of vote rigging in the Falkirk constituency.
He claimed Unite, which is the Labour Party's largest donor, sent a group called the Leverage Team to "threaten senior Ineos executives at home, and to seriously intimidate their families".
He said it was "clear from Unite's website" that the tactics were "not an isolated incident" but a "consistent strategy that they have used across the country".
Mr Shapps wrote: "Unite claim that this kind of behaviour is both 'legal and legitimate'. I'm sure you'll agree with me that it falls way short of decency.
"Last year (Unite leader) Len McCluskey praised this as 'a new, sophisticated, smart way to do business'."
(BBC NEWS)
(No doubt Ed will offer some small condemnation so as not to appear too 'red').
The Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has called on Labour leader Ed Miliband to condemn tactics used by the Unite union during the Grangemouth dispute.
It follows claims by an Ineos director that a "mob" was sent by Unite to his home to intimidate him.
Unite has defended its use of so-called leverage tactics, where managers are directly targeted as part of a protest.
It said the tactics were "legal and legitimate".
And it said bad employers should have "nowhere to hide".
The Ineos director told the Daily Mail how he feared for the safety of his wife and his two young children after 30 Unite protesters turned up at his home during the school holidays.
The newspaper claimed police were called after the group, which it said was an organised Unite leverage team, approached his neighbours and told them the director was "evil".Police Scotland confirmed that officers had attended an address in Dunfermline on Friday 18 October following reports of a protest.
A spokesman said the occupants were not present and the demonstrators left before they returned.
Prime Minister David Cameron described the leverage allegations as "quite shocking" and said the claims should be properly investigated.
In his letter to Mr Miliband, Mr Shapps described the strategy as "thuggish".
He urged Mr Miliband to condemn the approach, to refuse money from Unite until those responsible were disciplined, and again called on Labour to investigate allegations of vote rigging in the Falkirk constituency.
He claimed Unite, which is the Labour Party's largest donor, sent a group called the Leverage Team to "threaten senior Ineos executives at home, and to seriously intimidate their families".
He said it was "clear from Unite's website" that the tactics were "not an isolated incident" but a "consistent strategy that they have used across the country".
Mr Shapps wrote: "Unite claim that this kind of behaviour is both 'legal and legitimate'. I'm sure you'll agree with me that it falls way short of decency.
"Last year (Unite leader) Len McCluskey praised this as 'a new, sophisticated, smart way to do business'."
(BBC NEWS)