Defend IWW rep

[Edwin Clifford-Coupe]

Hi all, if you've got some time could you send an email to defend an IWW Metroline bus worker?

>
> Oscar Alvarez, IWW Rep and Metroline Bus Driver, has been unfairly
> sacked! He needs YOUR help urgently TODAY and THIS WEEK. We need you to
> take the three easy steps listed below this email .
>
> Oscar has been a London bus driver for 8 1/2 years. He reached the
> 10th position nationwide in Blackpool Best Bus Driver of the Year 2007
> competition which to date is still unbeaten by any Metroline driver.
>
> Now he has been unfairly sacked following a disagreement with a car
> driver who cut up his bus endangering herself and others. Oscar was
> simply defending the safety of his passengers and other road users.
>
> Oscar is also an IWW union activist defending his colleagues from a
> race-to-the-bottom attack on their terms and conditions - coincidence?
> Oscar was instrumental in starting bus drivers resistance to new
> contracts. Gerry Downing, another union activist, was recently sacked
> for similar reasons but has now won his job back. Other drivers in
> similar incidents have not been sacked.
>
> MANAGEMENT ARE HEARING OSCAR'S FINAL APPEAL THIS WEEK // PLEASE TAKE
> ACTION NOW!
>
> 1. EMAIL METROLINE
>
> Copy and paste the model letter below this email and send it to:
>
> • Sean O’Shea (Chief Operating Officer) sos...@metroline.co.uk
> • Jaspal Singh (Chief Executive) jsi...@metroline.co.uk
> • Nina Johnson (Senior HR Advisor) njoh...@metroline.co.uk
> • Metroline Head Office in...@metroline.co.uk
>
> Please cc. it to us and our allies at:
>
> • London IWW lon...@iww.org.uk
> • John Mcdonnell MP mcdon...@parliament.uk
> • Jerry Hicks jerry4...@yahoo.co.uk
>
> 2. RING METROLINE & URGE THEM TO REINSTATE OSCAR
>
> Please focus on Oscar’s great record as an outstanding driver and on
> the very weak merits of his case.
>
> • Directors Office: 020 8218 8844
> • Comments: 0845 300 7000
>
> 3. JOIN US TO LEAFLET METROLINE AT CRICKLEWOOD BUS GARAGE, NW LONDON,
> THURSDAY & FRIDAY LUNCHTIMES
>
> Join our IWW leafletting sessions Thursday 9th and Friday 10 May @
> Cricklewood Bus Garage, Edware Road, NW2 6jP between 11.30am and 1pm.
> Facebook event at http://tiny.cc/REINSTATEOSCARNOW
>
>
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>
> MODEL LETTER:
>
> Dear Mr. Sean O’Shea,
>
> Re: Compassionate appeal – Mr Oscar Alvarez
>
> I am writing to you as a member of the public and Metroline bus
> passenger to express my deep concern about the dismissal of Mr Oscar
> Alvarez, ex Metroline driver from the West Perivale Garage. Rather than
> gross misconduct it seems to me that Mr Alvarez actions should be
> construed as an attempt to correct the driving behaviour of another
> driver who had not only endangered her own safety, but also that of her
> baby and other road users. My understanding is that Mr Alvarez is an
> excellent driver; indeed has won a national award for good driving on
> behalf of Metroline. It is my firm belief that his action does not
> amount to gross misconduct and so I am requesting that you accept his
> appeal for reinstatement.
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> [Your name]