Councillor loses claims against Cartransporters and Alan Law

22nd September 1972, Page 355

22nd September 1972

Page 355

Page 355, 22nd September 1972 — Councillor loses claims against Cartransporters and Alan Law

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• A Bromsgrove councillor who claimed that both his employers, Cartransporters (BRS) Ltd, of Birmingham, and his union, the TGWU, were guilty of unfair industrial practice against him failed to prove either charge when he took his case before the Industrial Tribunal in Birmingham last week.

Cllr Kenneth Doughal Webb, who last year opposed the Industrial Relations Act, was attempting to prove he was entitled to compensation from his employers and from Mr Alan Law, as a Midland official of the TGWU.

He said that because he had fallen behind with his union dues he had been suspended as a member and, he said, as a result of the union's attitude, been demoted from his job with the loss of £5 a week as well as his promotional expectations.

Cllr Webb, who on demotion had been transferred from his position as a yard

checker at the company's Cofton Hackett depot to a loader at King's Norton, went on to say that the dispute had started when he had refused to pay a union re-entry fee of £10 after he had been ill. "On returning to work," he said, "I saw an executive who told me that he (the executive) did not want any trouble with Alan Law and could not have me back at Caton Hackett."

The Tribunal refused to hear the claim against Mr Law as the application had not been made within the 28 days statutory period.

However, as the charge against Cartransporters came under a different section of the Industrial Relations Act, the Tribunal heard the application but dismissed the claim on the grounds that the job Car Webb had been given at King's Norton was comparable with his original position and he had lost no promotional chances.