Unisongate - What happened to the internal Unison complaints?

What happened to the internal Unison complaints?

An investigation by an Assistant General Secretary, was commissioned on 3 December 2015.

Now nearly six months later there is no further news of this disciplinary investigation.

We have heard that only one paid official is under investigation. Indeed, casual questioning of regional staff reveals hardly anyone has been interviewed with respect to their alleged attendance of that meeting.

Over 800 UNISON members have already signed an online petition calling for there to be an independent investigation and you can sign it too:

https://www.change.org/p/wendy-nichols-unison-president-unison-general-secretary-election-for-an-independent-inquiry-and-a-re-run-of-the-election?recruiter=45845487&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_term=mob-xs-share_for_starters-custom_msg

A substantial minority of National Executive Council (NEC) representatives called for a discussion to sort out the process of the investigation at a their meeting on 9 December 2015 at Unison HQ. But any chance of a discussion was swiftly scuppered by a majority vote of NEC reps.

In the second Private Eye article it stated “A swift tweet from union vice-president Eric Roberts that he had “complete confidence” in her, did little to convince the three other candidates that Unison chiefs hadn’t already prejudged the issue.”

On 17 February 2016 some NEC reps at their NEC meeting at Unison HQ, tried to have a discussion about breaking news of “Team Dave” emails quoted in a recent Private Eye article. 

http://unisongate.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/unisongate-in-private-eye-february-2016.html

The article revealing disturbing comments about Unison branches. Again all attempts for a discussion were thwarted and NEC reps told that Unison had no idea when the ERS report would be available.

Interestingly, the ERS report came out the next day, 18 February 2016.