LABOUR-controlled five Liverpool and harassment at work of Dave sacked.
NALGO Action beginning of June.
action assaul and action harassment development, job in disgust. of your The sackings after hands of the of which have carried on the women.
The view voting demonstration full reinstatement and an 26 July 1979 along Brent council has now made it plain how it will treat women emplovees who allege sexual they will be At the beginning of last week, the secretary to the council's director of development received her cards after her pay had been stopped since the She was among three women who had made complaints alleging sexual Storms ot sexual the director of Beckett. The second woman, who is secretary to the feel council's chief engineer, is suspended from work, and the third has left her have taken place inquiry by eight councillors in the North-west London borough. The inquiry, the procedures never been made known, concluded that the allegations were unfounded, but placed no blame taken by the Brent council, NALGO branch is that the women are being punished for complaining The posts held by the complainants are now being boycotted, and a took place outside Brent town hall iast nient to demand inquiry states.
judicial lines into NALGO's law and parliamentary committee, will gave las • backing several months ago to writs alleging defamation taken out by against two local union representatives, has now agreed to pay the legal costs incurred by these representatives who sought to take up the complaint made by the women.
The union at national level thus finds itself in the curious position of supporting both sides in the case A leaflet signed by 11 women in the Brent NALGO branch asks: 'Can we as women in Brent NALGO ever again about making complaint?
'Had the complaint been from a man alleging, for example, physical violence or harassment from a senior officer, we feel sure that it would have been treated very differently.
"There would certainly not have been a slur on the character of the person who complained,' the leaflet adds. The writers say they are angry about sle TaKen by colleagues, and NALGO. They quote a male member of the branch executive, who is said to have remarked: *There but for the grace of god go l' *These attitudes have humiliated and trivialised all women,' the leaflet the