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"anonimulo" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:21180544.tKyIRmqmTn@4ax.com...
> http://www.bectusky.org.uk/news/307022.html
>
> Sky staff are claiming that their management have denied them access to a
> new trade union website which seeks to offer them help and information.
>
> The new website provided by broadcasting union BECTU ? www.bectusky.org.uk ?
> was launched in June. But after union officials visited Sky?s base in
> Osterley this month to publicise the site, staff found they could no longer
> access it from work. Several checks have been run by the site?s organisers
> to establish that there is no fault at the site end.
>
> BECTU official Sharon Elliott has written to Sky?s new Group Director of
> Human Resources Marie-Helene Ferguson asking for confirmation of the
> company?s actions in relation to the bectusky site and to BECTU?s principal
> site ? www.bectu.org.uk ? access to which is also blocked. Ms Ferguson has
> yet to explain the company?s position; additional enquiries from BECTU
> representatives at the base have also met with silence.
>
> ?It is astonishing that any broadcaster ? let alone a mature operator such
> as Sky - is apparently prepared to resort to such actions. The company?s
> business is communication and yet they apparently see fit to deny their
> staff access to a legitimate site. The company is in danger of making
> themselves look ridiculous.? commented Sharon Elliott.
>
> The launch of the website is a sign of the union?s continuing commitment to
> organising and serving Sky staff across the country. In February this year
> a formal ballot for recognition on behalf of the company?s Sales operation
> in Livingston, Scotland was defeated. The company?s behaviour in the run up
> to the ballot ? subjecting staff to intimidation, acting outside of agreed
> access arrangements together with a major attack on a union activist ? was
> widely criticised. The case has been cited in submissions made by the TUC
> and BECTU to the current review of the Employment Relations Act 1999 which
> first established the right to statutory trade union recognition.
>
> When the ballot result was declared on 4 February 2003 the company decided
> to write to all its staff warning them off trade union organisation and
> threatening them with business closure in the event of mass support; this
> hugely controversial letter led to the departure of then Group Head of
> Human Resources Craig McCoy.
>
> Sky?s Computer Policy grants staff some licence to use the system for
> personal use: ?A small amount of personal use is permissable as long as it
> is not excessive and does not interfere with normal business activity? the
> policy says.

At BAE SYSTEMS they won't let you access the internet at all.
All you get is email.
Anyway they can always access the union website at home.

Mike.


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