COMMUNITY UNION'S HOT HEADED COMRADES
Comrade Pritchard (in flat cap) GMCUB Chairman
WHEN Sheila Coleman, the Unite union Community Membership Officer, failed to attend the branch meeting of the Greater Manchester Unite Community Union Branch (GMCUB), on Tuesday 24th April at Unite Salford Quays Office trouble erupted. Sister Coleman seems to act as a kind of chaperone for this troubled and wayward union branch.
In consequence without her loving and caring attention all hell broke lose, with one robust and militant branch member, Paul Kelly, taking to flailing with his fists at a fellow branch member. So seemingly frenzied and demented was the Kelly outburst that he had to be restrained briefly by colleagues, while he recovered his composure.
The Unite Greater Manchester Community Branch has gained a such a reputation of wayward conduct of late, that it has been the subject of special investigation and has had the undivided attention of the Unite officer Ms. Sheila Coleman, who has a distinguished background on Merseyside for campaigning for the victims and families of Hillsborough.
Last month, it was hoped that with the successful banishment of two disgruntled branch members by suspending them just before the branch AGM, the climate of the branch would cool down a bit.
Alas, it was not to be!
Last month's suspensions seem merely to have excited people like Mr Kelly, to try to create the conditions for further suspensions and havoc.
The taste of the blood of the earlier suspensions was apparently too rich for Mr Kelly, and he seems to have become overwrought as the report below of recent allegations in the Salford Star suggests:
'The President of Salford TUC Paul Kelly has been reported to the Unite Regional Office. The substance of the complaint is that he verbally abused a Unite member prior to a meeting of the Greater Manchester Community Branch on Tuesday 24th April at Unite Salford Quays Office. Furthermore he raised his fists in a threatening and menacing manner and threatened to beat the member up!'
None
of this bodes well for May Day and worker's solidarity. Indeed next Monday, the excitable Mr. Kelly will be speaking on such issues as international comradeship at a May Day event in Salford's Bexley Square alongside the delightful Labour shadow business secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey MP.
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But at the May Day event in Bexley Square on Monday last, MR. KELLY spoke with great eloquence, alas there was an underlying threat in his words, AS THE 'SALFORD STAR' REPORTED:
'Paul Kelly of Salford TUC, said that he'd heard some fine words spoken at the rally but "fine words need to be backed up by fine actions...to stop this carnage happening to our class."'
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