Strike stops sacking
Socialist Press1978 1978-08-23Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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A strike of 70 dustmen in the London Borough of Camden has won almost immediate reinstatement for a dustman sacked by management on the basis of a forged letter.
within one day of the first ever all out strike at the depot the victimised dustman, Joe Corbett, was reinstated with a guarantee that no further action would be taken.
Corbett was sacked after a laundry worker claimed that he had asked for money to collect refuse.
Management claimed that she had written a letter, which they refused to allow the steward to see, outlining her complaint.
A visit to the laundry worker established that her original complaint (a telephone call) had been wrong since Corbett had made no such demand, and that she had never written to management to complain.
The next morning, 70 dustmen at the depot voted unanimously to come out;
The dustmen returned to work the next day having given an object lesson in the defence - of victimised workers.