Picket in support of sacked Dunnes shop steward!

Derry picket is at 1.00pm on Friday at the Springtown branch of Dunnes.

Hi

This is interesting. Are the other staff coming out in support of their colleague? How are shoppers who ignore the pickets going to justify their actions?

Few directors read their email anyway, but I think the names and addresses of this comrade’s line management should be “leaked”.

Love

LR

How about faxing or calling the branch at 1.00pm, is she going for re-instatement, what would she like in the way of support or even said from across the water?

Hi

Indeed. At face value this looks like a shocking act on the part of the Dunnes, I cannot understand how they hope to get away with it. Is there more to this than meets the eye?

Love

LR

Joanne is going for re-instatement and she and her union are calling for local support. As for support from 'across the water' and what they want/need we'll probably be in a better position to answer that after the Dublin support group is established whith Joannes involvement.

Are there any Dunnes branches in England, Scotland or Wales? Also the Labourstart email campaign is worthwhile and easy to do.

At present the Belfast and District Trades Union Council has come out in support of the call by Organise! to picket the Belfast city centre store tomorrow and have urged all their delegates to attend.

Cheers;

LR, this is a shocking act on the part of Dunnes but we really need someone with knowledge of southern Irish labour law to give an imput and let us know if they could have thought they had any basis for thinking they could get away with this.

Having said that its not always that important what the legal rights and wrongs are in a case. If southern labour courts are anything like Industrial Tribunals in the north they could well find in favour of Joanne order Dunnes to pay compensation and call on them to reinstate her. Reinstatement is not however compulsorary - and I've worked for bastards who have got rid of people (who they see as 'troublemakers') before on very dubious grounds in the hope that a) they won't go to tribunal and b) that if they do and win they'd rather pay the money than keep or take back the employee. Again there is a disclaimer here in that I have little knowledge of southern Irish labour law.

I do know that meetings with the company have been cancelled due to Joanne insisting on union representation at them - and that is illegal in Northern Ireland as it is in the rest of the UK. Could someone let us know what the score is in the Republic?

But the illustration that an employer/local management will go to lengths that you seem to find surprising still holds. And even if they don't get away with it if they don't reinstate Joanne they still get away with it. Thats why maximum solidarity and public pressure needs to be brought to bear - in solidarity with Joanne Delaney and in defence of the right of workers to organise.

Cheers;

edited cos of spelling

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Whoops, sorry. I wasn't trying to compromise the fight. I agree with every word of your post.

Love

LR

Hi

And whilst I'm at it, here's Dunne's UK stores...

http://www.dunnesstores.com/store_locator_list.ds?isone=Y&regionid=2

Should I break the link? I'll leave it to an admin's discretion.

Love

LR

No need to apologise, didn't think thats what you were trying to do at all. Your store tracker link is great - so how about it folks? Organising solidarity across Britain (and who knows maybe even Spain) would be a great boost to this campaign.

we have one dunnes store in the sainsburys retail park (read: quick eviction of picketers) in salford.

Problem is the time, friday 1pm, well at least for me, and especially since it is not an easily reachable place where we could have one of our famous "lunch time pickets"

But please do keep this therad updated on the details, we can definitely organise something here i'm sure even with just couple people.

If you have a leaflet text ready, that would be very helpful.

60+ attended the picket of Dunnes city centre store in Belfast called in support of Joanne Delaney by Organise! This was a great example of solidarity in action that should be built upon. We are now looking to contact the Dublin solidarity group as soon as its set up and meeting to set up a support group in Belfast.

Organise! were joined on the picket by rank and file trade union members from the T&G and Unison & others, Belfast and District Trades Union Council delegates and Northern Ireland Committee - Irish Trades Union Congress officials (which I think is the first time ever anything we've organised has been supported by NIC-ICTU officials). On the political side there were representatives from the CPI, IRSP, Sinn Fein, Socialist Party, SWP and I think the Workers Party. Cheers went up when the picket was joined by around 10 postal workers currently taking wildcat action in Belfast.

Planning for a mini 'international' day of action at every Dunnes store we can manage would seem an obvious next step for this campaign. If yer interested email Organise! at organiseireland@yahoo.ie

Cheers to everyone who turned up to support Joanne Delaney.

Excellent! Fair play to youse.

wow, 60+ people in the middle of the working day, thats extremely well attended!

if it is a saturday, i'll help set up one here in Manchester/Salford. Other peeps here may be able to take care other days if the picket day falls on friday.

all I ask for is a bit of notice and not the 17th Feb - I'll be along with JDMF and I'm sure others in Manc will too.

are there dunnes stores on the MAINLAND

Hi

Yep. On page 1 comrade.

Love

LR

no place to hide from Dunnes mate.

EDIT: although you already knew that if unlike me you had seen http://libcom.org/news/article.php?story=joanne-delaney-dunnes-240206&query=dunnes

Sounds like a victory: