TSSA Union staff vote to strike over bullying row
GMB members working for TSSA Union have voted to strike over a longstanding row about the union’s toxic workplace culture.
The ballot closed yesterday with participating GMB members voting 86 per cent in favour of strike action, on a turnout of 73 per cent.
This strike will mark the second time that TSSA staff have taken industrial action over bullying and intimidation by management, and a lack of fair process.
Previous strike action last summer saw the union close for 15 days with picket lines outside TSSA’s central London office.
Andrew Harden, GMB Regional Organiser, said:
“Bullying, intimidation, and harassment have no place inside any workplace, let alone a union.
“The results of this strike ballot send a clear message: TSSA’s staff want the union’s leadership to clean up their act.
“TSSA’s leadership cannot ignore this vote. Staff have spoken. There is something seriously wrong with the way they are being treated and the way the organisation is being run.”
A GMB member working for TSSA said:
“The GS [General Secretary] can’t take criticism and just twists everything back and plays the victim at every turn.
“If they were competent to do the job, they wouldn't do that.”
