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There have been several cases in the UK in which workers have been fired because of their political beliefs and activities (usually related to the BNP), but this is often as a result of pressure from unionised employees:
There have, however, been many successful campaigns against nazis in the workplace over the past few years, mainly involving BNP members including:
Malcolm Skeggs, who ran the BNP mail order service, was forced out of his multiracial workplace after a strike led by local CPSA militants. However he was transferred to another civil service job producing equal opportunity videos! Later he was moved to a less controversial post.
Simon Chadwick, a leading BNP and Combat 18 thug, was sacked from the Sheffield employment office where he worked. Following his appearance in Searchlight, CPSA members in Sheffield became aware that Chadwick was working at Sheffield Job Centre, which also had a significant number of black and Asian workers. Chadwick, who carried a baseball bat around with him at work, saw a campaign launched for his dismissal. The campaign involved action within the workplace by CPSA members and pickets organised by local anti-racist activists. Although management had initially taken a position of "his politics are nothing to do with the Employment Service", the strength of the campaign led to his dismissal.
Laurence Johnson, a BNP activist, resigned from the Nottingham employment service after his BNP and Ku Klux Klan activities were exposed and the trade unions made representations to his employer.
Cathy Murphy, a BNP activist, was forced out of Coventry DSS.
Adrian Blundell of the Ku Klux Klan lost his regular casual work in the postal service as a result of action by anti-fascist Union of Communication Workers (UCW) branch officials.
Eric Brand, a leading figure in the Scottish BNP, was dismissed from his job as a careers adviser at Glasgow Caledonian University partly as a result of National Union of Students (NUS) and Association of University Teachers (AUT) protests.
(from Searchlight, an anti-racist and fascist site, let's not argue about the meaning of 'fascism' in this thread)
I did hear about one very recently, but can't find a link; though in this case, the man in question had been distributing BNP propaganda in the workplace. It does seem unfair that one can be sacked for political opinions which have no impact on one's workplace, but in many cases political opinions do have an impact which isn't necessarily party-political - for example the BNP is associated with racism, an obviously political issue in the workplace... |
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