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After a three-year long battle
four Socialist Party members(Glenn Kelly, Suzanne Muna,
Onay Kasab and Brian Debus), were
at last given justice in a court of
law. UNISON has been ruled to have
acted unlawfully in disciplining the
four, banning them from ofce and
taking control of their branches.
They were disciplined by UNISON
on trumped-up charges of racism,
after producing a leaet at the 2007Unison conference, challenging
the Standing Orders Committee
(SOC) about ruling resolutions
off the conference agenda.
The union ofcials tried to hide
behind the smear of racism, citing
the three wise monkeys cartoon
on the leaet. But the judgment is
absolutely clear on this question: It
is obvious to anyone looking at the
cartoon that it is meant to representthe well-known image of the three
wise monkeys who see no evil, hear
no evil and speak no evil.
The tribunal later goes on to say that:
All four claimants are committed
anti-racists and have fought against
racism. They quite reasonably
assumed that anyone who saw
the leaet would understand the
cartoon to be saying that the SOCwas out of touch and closing its
mind to and ignoring issues that
concerned the membership.
The cartoon was not a pictorial
depiction of the members of the
SOC... but a representation of its
attitude towards motions that were
submitted to it.
See the Defend the Four website for
more information on the ET ruling.
WITCH-HUNT
What is clear is that the four weredisciplined because they had the
temerity to demand the right to
debate whether union ofcials
should be elected and live off a
workers wage, whether ordinary
members should have control over
strike action and whether the union
should carry on funding the Labour
Party, particularly at a time when
a Labour government was voting
through thousands of redundanciesof our members.
The Four and their supporters are
demanding:
Lift the ban on the four
Allow the four to be re-instated
in their branch and national
positions.
UNISON branches to be taken out
of regional administration.
WASTING MEMBERS MONEY
Tens of thousands of pounds and
hundreds of hours have been used
to try to prosecute this case against
the four. Members have a right to
know that every penny in the union
and every moment will be used in
defence of their jobs and aimedat the real enemy which is the
employers and this government.
We call on all Unison members
and branches to demand that this
injustice be undone.
A model motion and the background
to this case can be found on the
Defend the Four Website.
www.stopthewitchhunt.org.uk
DEFENDTHE FOUR