{"id":28123,"date":"2021-03-19T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=28123"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:19:20","slug":"st-mungos-bullying-and-anti-union-culture-must-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=28123","title":{"rendered":"St Mungo’s ‘bullying and anti-union culture’ must end"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A \u00e2\u20ac\u0098bullying and anti-union culture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 amongst the management at London-based housing support charity St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s must end, Unite said today (March 19).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite, which has more than 500 members at St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, said a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098disproportionate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 44 per cent of Unite stewards at the charity are currently engaged in formal processes concerning their own employment, while also dealing with similar matters for fellow Unite members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite believes St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s managers are targeting union reps so they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have time to represent members, as they are too busy defending themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s staff staged walkouts last year, in part due to the charity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unbalanced and unfair use of disciplinary procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, the issue has become so bad within St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s property services department that Unite is balloting its members in this section for strike action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ballot, which opens on March 23 and runs until April 6, was called after a number of staff grievances against property services senior management were dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite said these claims had not been properly investigated and that a workplace representative is now being unfairly subjected to disciplinary proceedings as a direct result of raising the initial grievance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s property services department is responsible for the day-to-day repairs for the charity\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 3,200 units, which are located in London, Bristol, Oxford, Milton Keynes, Bournemouth, Brighton and Reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unite regional officer Steve O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe bullying and anti-union culture amongst management at St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s must end. Nearly half of Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reps are currently engaged in formal processes concerning their own employment, while also dealing with similar matters for fellow Unite members. Unite believes reps are being targeted to hinder them carrying out their union roles on behalf of staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMeanwhile, the anger within the property services department is such that we have no choice but to ballot our members for strike action,” he added. “Further escalation can be avoided if St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s launches an independent and impartial investigation into the behaviour of property services management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe unfair disciplinary process against Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s workplace representative must also be dropped, as must the targeting of union reps elsewhere in the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s door is always open, and we call on St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to work with the union to improve industrial relations between staff and management.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Ryan Fletcher<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A \u00e2\u20ac\u0098bullying and anti-union culture\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 amongst the management at London-based housing support charity St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s must end, Unite said today (March 19). Unite, which has more than 500 members at St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, said a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098disproportionate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 44 per cent of Unite stewards at the charity are currently engaged in formal processes concerning their own employment, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1602,309,1093],"wps_subtitle":"Management accused of targeting union reps at housing support charity St Mungo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28127,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28123\/revisions\/28127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}