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Friday November 05, 2004 11:05

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Senior Management in the NICS attempt to bully staff to prevent them exercising their democratic rights to protest.

Senior Management in the NI Civil service have attempted to threaten and intimidate staff who choose to exercise their rights and freedoms to join with colleagues from PCS (UK Public Services union) at a lunchtime rally today which NIPSA has called for members and branches to support. The rally is to support the PCS against the massive job cuts Gordon Brown has forced the Civil service to make. Here in NI we face the prospect of losing around 4000 posts including the water service. Senior Managment obviously can't face the prospect that while at the moment NIPSA is not in dipsute (watch that space) members may wish to make public their disgust at the Government's policy and exercise their right to attend this rally and protest.

The actions of senior managment to attempt to try and control what people can do in their own time and whom they are permitted to associate with on an issue like this is clearly an abuse of the rights of staff and should not be tolerated.

I hope that any staff wishing to attend the rally in Transport House today will do so anyway and that if management do attempt to deduct pay that they will be flooded with unlawful deductions cases.

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Comments (51 of 51)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	PCS STRIKE	TFC	Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:15
2	Strike News	pat c	Fri Nov 05, 2004 13:01
3	government	joseph	Fri Nov 05, 2004 14:45
4	yeah right!	pat c	Fri Nov 05, 2004 14:48
5	solidarity	annmarie	Fri Nov 05, 2004 15:20
6	Why you asking?	Amused Labour Man	Fri Nov 05, 2004 16:21
7	solidarity	madge	Fri Nov 05, 2004 17:55
8	point of order	stroppy	Sat Nov 06, 2004 00:01
9	stropped out	madge	Sat Nov 06, 2004 09:41
10	uncivil servants	Jim	Mon Nov 08, 2004 01:11
11	to jim	.	Mon Nov 08, 2004 01:35
12	To . The Trot	Trotwatch	Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:11
13	trot lost the plot?	madge	Mon Nov 08, 2004 20:02
14	Why am I not surprised?	Bureaucratwatch	Mon Nov 08, 2004 23:11
15	?	madge	Tue Nov 09, 2004 00:15
16	time for common sense to prevail	Jim	Tue Nov 09, 2004 00:55
17	One question answered, now	.	Tue Nov 09, 2004 08:30
18	One question answered, now	.	Tue Nov 09, 2004 08:30
19	ask another one	madge	Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:30
20	Pull the Other one!	The Members	Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:00
21	trotting out the same old rubbish	Jim	Tue Nov 09, 2004 13:06
22	its got bells on!	madge	Tue Nov 09, 2004 20:14
23	Answer the question	The Members	Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:37
24	I thought I had	madge	Wed Nov 10, 2004 18:08
25	confused	stroppy	Thu Nov 11, 2004 01:01
26	elections elections	interested	Sun Nov 21, 2004 00:47
27	interesting question	madge	Mon Nov 22, 2004 01:09
28	who is stroppy	patrick Mcginley	Sun Nov 28, 2004 02:59
29	out in the open	madge	Sun Nov 28, 2004 11:34
30	open debate	patrick mcginley	Mon Nov 29, 2004 19:48
31	oafen debate	stroppy	Thu Feb 24, 2005 01:09
32	oafwatch	trot spy	Fri Feb 25, 2005 00:48
33	trotspite	stroppy	Sat Feb 26, 2005 01:45
34	overtime debate	stroppy	Tue Mar 22, 2005 01:46
35	banner	james	Fri Mar 25, 2005 01:08
36	?	madge	Sat Mar 26, 2005 13:33
37	group strategy	james	Sat Mar 26, 2005 19:57
38	easy way out	madge	Sun Mar 27, 2005 21:53
39	the banner	Branch 8 member	Sat Apr 09, 2005 17:45
40	banner money	stroppy	Sun Apr 10, 2005 23:48
41	the banner	patrick mcginley	Mon Apr 11, 2005 20:46
42	Hail Patreek	stroppy	Tue Apr 12, 2005 01:02
43	Dear Stroppy	patrick mcginley	Tue Apr 12, 2005 02:31
44	Dear Sniveller	patrick mcginley	Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:03
45	Strange goings on.	The Phantom	Tue Apr 12, 2005 18:39
46	spooky or what	stroppy	Wed Apr 13, 2005 00:28
47	Spooked or what?	patrick mcginley	Wed Apr 13, 2005 02:06
48	ghosts in the party machine	son of stroppy	Wed Apr 13, 2005 23:43
49	son of stroppy	patrick mcginley	Thu Apr 14, 2005 01:22
50	The End	patrick mcginley	Sat Jun 04, 2005 19:29
51	the end is nigh	stroppy	Sat Jun 04, 2005 20:05

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