Trots tribunal trouble – Heemskerk fails to win reinstatement
It’s official the web site geek can’t add up. Three lots of 50,000 don’t make a quarter of a million. This is what he estimates the union has, in his words, “wasted” on getting rid of the (secretly trot) Des Heemskerk. Of course for all of us that know the trots true mission it wasn’t wasted, in fact it would have been cheap at twice the price.
Des and his mates have campaigned repeatedly for policies that would have bankrupted the union. Backing illegal strike action at Wembley for example. So £150,000 is a drop in the ocean compared to the havoc they could have reaped on the union. In any case it is their actions that have cost the union the money anyway. They were organising a coup against our General Secretary and got caught. They have been wining about it ever since, talk about paper tigers; it doesn’t bode well for them becoming the vanguard of the working class if at the first sign of trouble they run off to a tribunal. The only excuse for revolution is success.
The web site geek can hardly contain his disappointment that Des failed to get a reinstatement order. He bravely dismisses it with a suggestion that reinstatement orders are very rare. If this were true why was their entire case based on this goal? They even delayed the remedy hearing till after the merger hoping the changed circumstances would get Des back in. The tribunal found for Des because of procedural problems with case but he had shown enough of his true colours for the tribunal to see his reemployment was impossible.
No doubt a big trot party had to be cancelled, with gallons of weak lemon drink being poured down the drain and the commemorative green ink pens put back in the cupboard. Thousands of leaflets, condemning the leadership and calling for support for the mad trot motions demanding the union adopt a policy of immediate reinstatement for anyone winning a reinstatement order at a tribunal will have to be rewritten, how sad.
Friday was a great day for all those who want a progressive trot free union.