I note with concern that several activists around the country have been disciplined by Unison over matters to do with what others would consider to be minor mistakes. I am all for discipline and believe strongly that a large organisation like Unison cannot function without having rules and discipline but the issues for which activists are dealt with should be more serious than the ones we have witnessed in the last few years. A balance needs to be kept between the need to accept decisions and rules agreed by national conference and freedom of speech? There seems to be double arrogance with this. On the one hand few activists seem to want to take the union on and disregard the 'rules' by doing their own thing and on the other the national union seems to want to crash any form of opposition and use their might to show who the boss is?
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