Re: Hold your Horses

In Reply to: Re: Hold your Horses posted by Joe76 on 09 April 2006 at 06:17:56:

The Barrister route was to satisfy ourselves that there was NO case. Maybe there is a case, we will probably never know!

If you look at the USA Employees/Retirees have challenged IBM in the courts and won.

: : My thinking was that an opinion from a barrister would allow us to know whether we had any chance to take on IBM legally, whether there was an alternative strategy we should pursue. A leader could help us organise.

: : I had hoped that being organised with a specialist legal adviser would result in the "specific workable ideas" you desire being formulated.

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: I suspect that following the legal path would not be a good use of AMIPP's money. I would imagine that IBM's barristers and the Trust's barristers have examined the proposals to death.

: Given the cumulative effect of IBM's actions in recent years, I believe that members have a strong moral case, even if the company has followed the letter of the law. Our problem is how to convert a strong moral case into action or the threat of action which would persuade IBM to think again.

: The last thing the company would want is former employees protesting outside its offices, or its white-collar workers drumming up support for joining a union.