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Dec 7, 2019, 5 tweets

[1/5] Imagine an employer fined a worker 40% of his wages for something that at the time was not *either explicitly or implicitly* a breach of policy…

[2/5] Then imagine this employer, when later realising it was on shaky ground, hastily created such a policy out of thin air – without consulting staff or considering the impact on the organisation – and then tried to claim the policy had “self-evidently” always been in force...

[3/5] Then imagine this employer, when questioned, was unable to provide any credible explanation to support its assertion that the policy had “self-evidently” always been in force...

[4/5] Then imagine it was discovered this employer had, for several years, been quite happy to allow two of its own managers to get away with *the very thing* it had disciplined the first employee for…

[5/5] Any trade union worth its salt would make mincemeat of such grubby, underhand conduct, wouldn’t it? Except, in this case, the guilty people are the leaders of @fbunational. This crookedness is happening on @MattWrack’s watch. It’s time he started answering some questions.

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