Greg Tucker (RMT Train crew grades secretary) Over a year after being. downgraded from driver to
collector the Employment Tribunal has now found in my favour. Their findings quite clearly exonerate me and are a damning indictment of South West Trains management.
The unanimous decision of the Tribunal is that "the complaint of unfair dismissal
Commenting on the orig inal cause of my discipline, they "see no pattern of recklessness or general disregard for the rules and think that the case is best categorised as one of minor inadverThey go on to assert, "We are entirely satisfied that (notwithstanding the exceptional wording of the
charges) the Applicant's errors did not cause the train or its passenInstead they are forthright in declaring that it was my trade unionism that led to Vindicated: Greg Tucker "We found him a deeply evidence implausible, and
even absurd." The senior manager who subsequently took appeal fares no better; "Mr Marsden struck us, "We found much of his like Mr Cook, as a witness
with no regard for truth, willing to say whatever he thought might improve his the own position.
*Like that of Mr Cook, and in striking contrast with the frank and straightforward The unanimous decision: "the complaint of unfair dismissal is wellfounded" ..... ... testimony of the Applicant, we found much of Mr Marsden's evidence incredible, and some of it risible."
Summing up the evidence the Tribunal concludes, "Those factors also suggest to us that the dismissal was part of a concerted manoeuvre involving several influential members of the Respondents' management".
South West Trains was given 28 days to come up with an agreeable form of restitution.
The RMT is continuing to press for my full reinstatement as a driver.
Thanks to all those who have supported me in the campaign against SWT victimisation.