NUPE's nant
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-10-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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AS we go to press, we have heard that Anne-Marie Sweeney, shop steward for Oxfordshire home helps, and minutes secretary of the Oxford County branch of NUPE, has been suspended from the union, pending a call for her expulsion.
We gather than AnneMarie's 'crime', for which she was heavily attacked by local official Alf Collier and other branch officials, was to write to the union's NEC querying ballot procedures.
As á delegate from NUPE, Anne-Marie is president of Oxfordshire County Association of Trades Councils. She has been consistently active in local and national campaigns ágainst Tory spending cuts in the NHS, nurseries, social services and achool meals.
The branch motion calling for her expulsion has not yet been heard by the union's NEC. NUPE militants concerned at this witch hunt of a dedicated trade unionist should ensure that their views are heard at every level in the union.