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The cover has been removed from the right wall where a bugged phone was relocated after its removal and its bugging facility completed. The whiteboard has been removed from the facing wall. All documents and data destruction logs on above are *lost* according to the Home Office/MoJ.
The Union phone at work was cut off.
Instructions were given to Frances, the telephonist, not to allow calls through.
A victimization meeting was held instructing staff to victimise re use of their phones to enable Prettypetal to do job and they followed those instructions.
All above authorized and carried out with the full knowledge and intent of the Governor. *
Home Secretaries:
▶️Mr. Jack Straw
▶️Ken Clarke KC 📮Lord Clarke of Nottingham - House of Lords 2026
▶️Ken Baker 📮Baron Baker of Dorking - House of Lords 2026 London U.K.
🔴Ms. Jac [Jacqui/Jackie/Jacqueline] Harvey - [Prison Lead for Libraries, Families and I.T.] and former Head of Education at Holloway jail sent Pp a handwritten memo re above removal of phone at the end of which she wrote "Richard [Mr. Richard Brown] agreed to this". She later bravely admitted the contents of her Memo was a complete fabrication.
Governors
Ex-Governor ▶️Mr. Tim Michael O'Sullivan
Ex-Assistant Governor: ▶️Mr. David M Lancaster
The News Line: Editorial
Friday, 11 July 2014
Massive strike action greeted by Tory coalition threats!
AS millions of public sector workers, teachers, firefighters, local government workers and many other sections took strike action yesterday, Prime Minister Cameron pledged to bring in more anti-union laws to make it impossible to have a legal strike action.
He said: ‘I think the time has come for setting a threshold. It is time to legislate and it will be in the Conservative manifesto.’
Cameron attacked the low turnout thresholds in union strike ballots and challenged the validity of mandates to take industrial action derived from ballots conducted more than a year ago in some cases.
Tory MPs said strike action in schools had been supported in a ballot in 2012 by 22% of NUT members, and 33% of NASUWT members and said that it should be illegal that a single strike ballot can make successive rounds of industrial action lawful provided that the same dispute is involved.
The Tories are considering two strike threshold options. Under the first, backed by Mayor Johnson and Gove, a strike could only take place if it was supported by a majority of the entire membership, not just those who vote. Under the second, a minimum turnout of 60% would have to take part, regardless of how they voted.
Yesterday, education secretary Michael Gove accused the teaching unions of standing up for their pay and pensions but not for education.
Gove said: ‘The ballot which legitimates this strike is, I think, something like two years old and the turnout which validates that ballot was small.’
Unite however published its opinion poll showing that the public back the right to strike in this dispute by 61% to 31%, support a £1-an-hour increase in council workers’ wages by 48% to 35%, and oppose public-sector real-terms pay cuts lasting to 2018 by 56% to 25%.
McCluskey, the Unite general secretary, also attacked the prime minister’s plans to tighten the strike laws. He correctly pointed out: ‘The whiff of hypocrisy coming from Cameron as he harps on about voting thresholds is overwhelming. Not a single member of his cabinet won over 50% of the vote in the 2010 election, with Cameron himself getting just 43% of the potential vote.
‘If he practiced what he preached, then no Tory councillors would have been elected in the last 20 years and Londoners would have been spared the circus of Boris Johnson. So we’ll take no lessons from the Bullingdon bully, who gives tax breaks to his City chums yet plots to deprive lowly waged workers of their right to fight poverty pay.’
Cameron also attacked Ed Miliband for neither supporting nor condemning the strikes, billed as some of the largest since the general strike of 1926
Dave Prentis, the leader of Unison, the largest public-sector union, also also critisised Miliband’s stance, saying: ‘It is time for Labour to make up its mind. Public-service workers are people who should be Labour’s natural supporters and they deserve Labour’s unashamed backing in return.’
Unison general secretary Dave Prentis has stressed that members have turned out ‘in force’ for the strike today and that the ‘massive show of solidarity’ from the members and the public alike shows that 1% is just ‘not enough’.
Prentis said: ‘It is a disgrace that more than 400,000 local government and school support workers are paid less than the living wage and one million earn less than the Coalition’s low-pay threshold of £21,000.’
The unions in local government are seeking a pay rise worth £1 an hour. The unions claim ministers have in effect served notice that pay freezes in the public sector will continue until 2018, by which time the deficit is due to be eradicated.
The situation is now crystal clear. The working class has had enough, and will not stand for additional pay cuts and new anti-union laws that will make it impossible to have a legal strike action, and will legalise poverty wages for ever!
The Tories however are determined to proceed with their measures. It is a class war to the finish as far as they are concerned. As usual Miliband dodges the issue and shows that Labour will do the same as the Tories once it is in office.
There is only one solution to this crisis. The working class must fight to win! The TUC General Council, including McCluskey and Prentis must stop debating the ‘practicalities of calling an indefinite general strike, and must call one at this September’s TUC Congress, or resign and be replaced by leaders who will! An indefinite general strike will bring the Tory government down and bring in a workers government and socialism. There is no other way forward.
Phil Siddle, NASUWT National Official (Recruitment)
Workshop 1
‘Out’ and Safe in School
A workshop exploring strategies for being ‘Out’ and safe in the workplace.
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Photos by Hannah Murray
The Women Chainmakers Festival is organised by trade unions in conjunction with the local community. With have live music, stalls, speeches, the Midlands TUC aims to maintain this event as the largest celebration of womens' history in Britain.
The festival celebrates the achievements of 800 women Chainmakers who fought to establish a minimum wage for their labour in 1910, following a 10 week strike. The local employers sought to deny them their rights but were met with forceful opposition. The strike was led by trade unionist Mary Macarthur, who founded the National Federation of Women Workers and later stood for Parliament as a Labour candidate.
Saturday 9th June marked the centenary of the opening of the Workers Institute. Local sculpter Luke Perry built a monument in Mary Macarthur Gardens to the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath, their famous strike of 1910 and Mary Macarthur who roused them. This was unveiled in the morning and was followed by a march and banner procession to the eighth Women Chainmakers festival in Bearmore Park in Cradley Heath.
The site of the festival is at the heart of the Cradley Heath community where the Chainmakers worked and lived - and fought their successful ten week dispute to secure a minimum wage for their sector.
The festival included a performance stage, community tent, childrens tent, unionlearning tent with plenty of entertainment in between.
Midlands TUC Regional Secretary Rob Johnston said: “We are delighted to bring the Chainmakers back to Cradley Heath. This places our joint celebration of Mary Macarthur, who led the strike, back in the heart of the community where the women fought for their rights to a minimum wage. It was a great achievement and we are indebted to Sandwell Council for their support in helping us continue to celebrate this important event. We are looking to make this festival an integral part of Cradley Heath for the foreseeable future and look forward to a long and successful partnership with the council to make this happen.”
Sandwell Council Leader Councillor Darren Cooper said: “We are very pleased the TUC is again prepared to organise the festival in conjunction with the council. This is an event which celebrates our local history and marks one of the most important events to take place anywhere in the country – and it is here on our patch in Cradley Heath. The festival has been moved forward to June to coincide with the unveiling of a statue of a woman chainmaker at Mary Macarthur Park in Cradley Heath, organised by the council and the Friends of Mary Macarthur Gardens Group.”