So some prison staff oop north are having a little strike. This is
illegal. I wonder if they will savour this irony when they return to
the landings and show us how "to live a law abiding life on release"?
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- Previously known as "one of Britain's best known prisoners...he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility of the system" The Times, Ben was finally released from prison after 32 years in August 2012. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when he was 14 years old, he renounced violence and fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings. As a result of speaking truth to power, he served far longer than the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to argue that he had "been punished excessively for a crime committed as a child". One of the more intellectual of prisoner-campaigners, Ben chose to educate himself from schoolboy level to having both undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He is currently one of very few prisoners in Britain ever to attempt a Doctorate. Ben's speciality is non-violent action and the Human Needs Theory. Now on Life Licence, He is forging a career as a CJ policy consultant, writer and - as ever - campaigner.
The Ministry of Justice said the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act made it illegal to induce prison officers to go on strike or to take other industrial action which could put the safety of the public, prisoners or staff at risk.
ReplyDeleteA POA statement said the dispute had been sparked by an officer at Liverpool prison who had raised a grievance against the jail's governor, Alan Brown, being put on "detached duties" and transferred to nearby Kennet Prison.
The POA said prison staff had grown tired of being "managed by fear. We have had a management at Liverpool prison that has constantly bullied staff. It works with a two-tier system. Allegations of a manager being a bully are always pushed under the carpet, but prison officers are finding themselves in trouble over a whole range of things. Staff have been moved, dismissed by a wrong and unjust management."
Why is the strike illegal? Thought workers in this country could express their dissatisfaction with pay and conditions by striking? The postmen did...
ReplyDeleteThere are clauses written where certain services, for example the police cannot strike. This is due to a strike in Liverpool I believe about 1923 ?.
ReplyDeleteNo person should have to live under a regime of tirade of abuse, as said let's see how long the memory of the screws last ?