Barry Cook: The article below shows what this man is, in my case, he headed the lynch mob making everything fit. The man is ruthless, there are many men and women who would testify to this, but what is guaranteed, this behaviour is eventually his downfall. So a little bit of advice to you Mr Cook, always keep evidence especially if other people make decisions on orders that you carry out, because that is how they will get rid of you when your time is up if it hasn't happened already!
Your despicable involvement in the Lisa Dunster case will shortly become common knowledge, it is already on facebook, was it your decision or on orders? Funnily enough this is the same question Mark Atkinson is facing at the moment!
30 seconds to midnight!
Your despicable involvement in the Lisa Dunster case will shortly become common knowledge, it is already on facebook, was it your decision or on orders? Funnily enough this is the same question Mark Atkinson is facing at the moment!
30 seconds to midnight!
_ Silence is
striking
· Paul Foot
· The Guardian, Wednesday 16 October 2002 08.23 BST
· Article history
Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer went to prison for lying to a court. But is it perjury to lie to an industrial tribunal? I ask the question after reading the astonishing judgment of the London South industrial tribunal into the case of Greg Tucker.
I raised his case here last January. Greg Tucker, a safety representative for the RMT rail union at Waterloo station, was removed from his £30,000 train driver's job in June last year for very briefly exceeding the speed limit on the day he came back from four weeks' unpaid leave. He'd spent his leave campaigning in the general election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance. He was demoted to ticket collector (£15,000 a year).
His case was heard over eight days last March, June and July. The tribunal found unanimously that he had been unfairly victimised because of his union activities. Their commentary on the behaviour of the two South West Trains executives who gave evidence before them was extraordinary. Barry Cook, train crew manager at Wimbledon, came in for a terrible bashing. His repeated assertions that he had no idea Tucker was a union militant and had been in the company's sights for some time were denounced as "untrue", "inconceivable" and "unbelievable". He was described as "a deeply unimpressive witness", "evasive", "implausible and even absurd". The tribunal added: "We do not accept (and we devoutly hope we are right in this) that SWT would entrust the care of a depot of 160 train drivers to the care of a manager who ordinarily applies to those under his control reasoning as perverse as Mr Cook claims to have applied to Mr Tucker."
Frank Marsden, SWT's head of drivers, didn't get off any lighter. He was described as "a witness without regard for truth, willing to say whatever he thought would improve the position". SWT tells me Cook and Marsden are still in their jobs. Whether either of them will even be questioned about possible perjury charges is a matter for the police. But the future of these two relatively junior prevaricators is not really the point. In a long passage the tribunal complained about the lack of any information about the role of higher management in the victimisation of Tucker. Who chose Cook and Marsden to represent the company in the disciplinary hearings? Who took the decision to monitor Tucker's driving on the day he returned to work? Were there any discussions about this among SWT's higher management?
On all these matters, the tribunal could get no information. So the real question is still without an answer. Is SWT pursuing a policy of victimisation of trade union representatives who dare to stand up for their members, and even openly to express socialist opinions? In the week Tucker was vindicated, another London RMT representative, Paul McDonnell, also won his case for unfair dismissal by SWT.
"But is it perjury to lie to an industrial tribunal"? Up to now, Cook, Watson and especially Atkinson have got away with just that, PERJURY.
I did say, "up to now". Because perjury is now in 2014 top of everyone's hate list and questions are being asked!
· Paul Foot
· The Guardian, Wednesday 16 October 2002 08.23 BST
· Article history
Jonathan Aitken and Jeffrey Archer went to prison for lying to a court. But is it perjury to lie to an industrial tribunal? I ask the question after reading the astonishing judgment of the London South industrial tribunal into the case of Greg Tucker.
I raised his case here last January. Greg Tucker, a safety representative for the RMT rail union at Waterloo station, was removed from his £30,000 train driver's job in June last year for very briefly exceeding the speed limit on the day he came back from four weeks' unpaid leave. He'd spent his leave campaigning in the general election as a candidate for the Socialist Alliance. He was demoted to ticket collector (£15,000 a year).
His case was heard over eight days last March, June and July. The tribunal found unanimously that he had been unfairly victimised because of his union activities. Their commentary on the behaviour of the two South West Trains executives who gave evidence before them was extraordinary. Barry Cook, train crew manager at Wimbledon, came in for a terrible bashing. His repeated assertions that he had no idea Tucker was a union militant and had been in the company's sights for some time were denounced as "untrue", "inconceivable" and "unbelievable". He was described as "a deeply unimpressive witness", "evasive", "implausible and even absurd". The tribunal added: "We do not accept (and we devoutly hope we are right in this) that SWT would entrust the care of a depot of 160 train drivers to the care of a manager who ordinarily applies to those under his control reasoning as perverse as Mr Cook claims to have applied to Mr Tucker."
Frank Marsden, SWT's head of drivers, didn't get off any lighter. He was described as "a witness without regard for truth, willing to say whatever he thought would improve the position". SWT tells me Cook and Marsden are still in their jobs. Whether either of them will even be questioned about possible perjury charges is a matter for the police. But the future of these two relatively junior prevaricators is not really the point. In a long passage the tribunal complained about the lack of any information about the role of higher management in the victimisation of Tucker. Who chose Cook and Marsden to represent the company in the disciplinary hearings? Who took the decision to monitor Tucker's driving on the day he returned to work? Were there any discussions about this among SWT's higher management?
On all these matters, the tribunal could get no information. So the real question is still without an answer. Is SWT pursuing a policy of victimisation of trade union representatives who dare to stand up for their members, and even openly to express socialist opinions? In the week Tucker was vindicated, another London RMT representative, Paul McDonnell, also won his case for unfair dismissal by SWT.
"But is it perjury to lie to an industrial tribunal"? Up to now, Cook, Watson and especially Atkinson have got away with just that, PERJURY.
I did say, "up to now". Because perjury is now in 2014 top of everyone's hate list and questions are being asked!