Re: Trustees Accountability

Posted by Bryan Balfour on 24 September 2000 at 08:36:22:

In Reply to: Re: Trustees Accountability posted by Pete Warren on September 11, 2000 at 07:39:50:

: Unfortunately the trustees have been "silenced" by a requirement
: that all communication about the work of the trustees has to be
: directed through David Newman. I know some are unhappy about
: the action and I believe one has resigned because of it.

This is quite a worrying development. Surely we can communicate directly with the Member Elected Directors. They are, after all, our representatives on the Board of Trustees. How can they effectively represent us if they cannot communicate with us directly?

Perhaps we should look positively on this. For IBM to issue this directive we've clearly got them rattled. Hopefully it's only a matter of time before the press picks up on the issues being raise here and we can use this 'gagging of trustees' to infer that perhaps IBM HAS got something to hide!!