Fujitsu demo

Protestors held a demonstration this morning (February 23) outside Fujitsu’s offices in Manchester. They accused the company of using the cover of redundancies to get rid of workers who blew the whistle on unethical and possibly illegal company behaviour.

Duncan Tait Fujitsu CEO for Europe, Middle East, India and Africa was due to attend a meeting at Fujitsu’s offices in Manchester today (February 23).

On January 12, 2018 Fujitsu dismissed a Unite representative. Before the dismissal whistle-blowers raised extremely serious and damaging issues with the company which the union is compiling. Union reps have previously been targeted with spurious disciplinary allegations for legitimate union activity.

“Unite believes that Fujitsu is trying to silence whistle-blowers by dismissing some, and showing that it can make compulsory redundancies even when these are in breach of its agreements, employees’ contracts or the law,” said Unite national officer Louisa Bull.

“Taxpayers and clients need to know what is going on at Fujitsu, those blowing the whistle should not be sacked.

“Unite is demanding transparency and the reinstatement of our union representative. It is also time to end the unfair targeting of Unite members fighting for their jobs and for Fujitsu to adhere to its own agreements and ethical standards.”